A man has died following a single-vehicle crash in the states north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 7.50pm (Monday 4 August 2025), emergency services were called to Eurimbla Street, Thornton, following reports of a crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Port-Stephens Hunter Police District attended and found a car had crashed into a parked vehicle before crashing into a pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver \u2013 and sole occupant \u2013 a man aged in his 50s \u2013 was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics and taken to hospital in a critical condition; however, he died a short time later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A crime scene was established as an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash commenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died following a single-vehicle crash in the states north. About 7.50pm (Monday 4 August 2025), emergency services were called to Eurimbla Street, Thornton, following reports of a crash. Officers attached to Port-Stephens Hunter Police District attended and found a car had crashed into a parked vehicle before crashing into a pole. The driver \u2013 … Continue reading “Man dies following crash \u2013 Thornton”<\/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-34104","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\/34104","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=34104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34105,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34104\/revisions\/34105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}