A critical incident investigation is underway after a man died in a crash during a police pursuit in the state\u2019s Lake Macquarie region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7.30pm Saturday (19 July 2025), police attempted to stop a motorbike on King Street, Hamilton, as it did not have number plates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When the vehicle did not stop as directed, a pursuit commenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The pursuit travelled south on the Pacific Highway at Charlestown, where the male rider came off the bike a short time later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rider \u2013 a man believed to be aged in his 20s \u2013 was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics but died at the scene. He is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police established a crime scene and a critical incident team from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District will investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The investigation will be subject of an independent review by the Professional Standards Command and oversight by the Law Enforcement Conduct Commission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A critical incident investigation is underway after a man died in a crash during a police pursuit in the state\u2019s Lake Macquarie region. About 7.30pm Saturday (19 July 2025), police attempted to stop a motorbike on King Street, Hamilton, as it did not have number plates. When the vehicle did not stop as directed, a … Continue reading “Critical incident declared after man dies in crash during pursuit”<\/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-33784","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\/33784","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=33784"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33785,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions\/33785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}