An investigation is underway following a pursuit and crash in the Hunter region this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were patrolling Woodberry Road at Millers Forest about 4.15am (Wednesday 25 June 2025), when they saw a vehicle which had been reported stolen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the driver allegedly failed to stop when directed, a pursuit was initiated. It continued for less than a minute before the car left the road and crashed at Woodberry, about 5km north of Hexham.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers immediately rendered assistance to six people \u2013 believed to be teenagers \u2013 allegedly travelling in the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
NSW Ambulance paramedics have taken all six to John Hunter Hospital for assessment; police have been advised their injuries are not believed to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Checks have since revealed the car was stolen during an aggravated break-and enter-on a home in East Maitland overnight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Initial inquiries indicate a 15-year-old boy was driving the car at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An investigation is underway following a pursuit and crash in the Hunter region this morning. Officers attached to Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were patrolling Woodberry Road at Millers Forest about 4.15am (Wednesday 25 June 2025), when they saw a vehicle which had been reported stolen. When the driver allegedly failed to stop when directed, a … Continue reading “Six taken to hospital after stolen car crashes – Port Stephens-Hunter”<\/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-33370","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\/33370","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=33370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33371,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33370\/revisions\/33371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}