{"id":34299,"date":"2025-08-16T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=34299"},"modified":"2025-08-16T10:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T00:20:04","slug":"two-in-hospital-after-suvs-crash-in-hunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/two-in-hospital-after-suvs-crash-in-hunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Two in hospital after SUVs crash in Hunter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police are seeking witnesses and dashcam vision after a crash closed the Hunter Expressway earlier today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Emergency services were called to Greta about 5.20pm (Friday 15 August 2025), after two SUVs \u2013 both travelling southeast \u2013 collided.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 63-year-old woman driving the vehicle in front, a red 2022-model Isuzu, was not injured and stopped nearby; however, the occupants of the following vehicle were trapped when it rolled several times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 61-year-old woman, who was driving the grey 2020-model Honda HR-V, and her 88-year-old female passenger, were trapped for about an hour before the older woman was released and airlifted to John Hunter Hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver was taken by road ambulance to the same hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officers from Hunter Valley Police District attended and have commenced investigations into the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are seeking witnesses and dashcam vision after a crash closed the Hunter Expressway earlier today. Emergency services were called to Greta about 5.20pm (Friday 15 August 2025), after two SUVs \u2013 both travelling southeast \u2013 collided. A 63-year-old woman driving the vehicle in front, a red 2022-model Isuzu, was not injured and stopped nearby; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/08\/16\/two-in-hospital-after-suvs-crash-in-hunter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two in hospital after SUVs crash in Hunter&#8221;<\/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-34299","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\/34299","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=34299"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34300,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34299\/revisions\/34300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}