A man has died after he was struck by a car while crossing a street in the state\u2019s north today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7pm today (Sunday 22 June 2025), emergency services were called to the intersection of Cessnock Road and Kilaben Street, Awaba, following reports of a pedestrian had been hit by a white ute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pedestrian – a 98-year-old man \u2013 died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver \u2013 a 49-year-old man \u2013 was taken to John Hunter Hospital for a mandatory testing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene has been established and officers attached to Lake Macquarie Police District commenced an investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after he was struck by a car while crossing a street in the state\u2019s north today. About 7pm today (Sunday 22 June 2025), emergency services were called to the intersection of Cessnock Road and Kilaben Street, Awaba, following reports of a pedestrian had been hit by a white ute. The pedestrian … Continue reading “Pedestrian dies after being hit by car – Awaba”<\/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-33321","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\/33321","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=33321"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33322,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33321\/revisions\/33322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}