Two teenage boys on a motorcycle have been seriously injured after a crash in the Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shortly after 2am today (Sunday 1 June 2025), officers from Lake Macquarie Police District on routine patrol drove across a crash between a motorcycle and Mazda 3 hatchback at the intersection of Main Road and Lowry Street, Cardiff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police immediately stopped and rendered first aid to the occupants of the motorcycle until the arrival of NSW Ambulance paramedics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rider and pillion passenger \u2013 both aged 16 \u2013 were taken to John Hunter Hospital in a serious but stable condition. Both boys were wearing helmets at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver of the car \u2013 a 52-year-old man \u2013 escaped injury and was taken to the same hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was established which is currently being examined by specialist police from the Crash Investigation Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Inquiries have established that the motorcycle was reported stolen from Edgeworth on 11 May 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The motorcycle had not been involved in a pursuit prior to the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As inquiries continue, police are urging anyone who may have information about the crash \u2013 or has any available dashcam\/mobile phone footage \u2013 to contact Belmont Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two teenage boys on a motorcycle have been seriously injured after a crash in the Hunter region. Shortly after 2am today (Sunday 1 June 2025), officers from Lake Macquarie Police District on routine patrol drove across a crash between a motorcycle and Mazda 3 hatchback at the intersection of Main Road and Lowry Street, Cardiff. … Continue reading “Boys injured when motorcycle and car collide – Cardiff”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32971,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32970\/revisions\/32971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}