Diversions are in place after a fatal crash on the Central Coast.
\nAbout 7.20pm (Saturday 24 August 2019), a vehicle was travelling north on the M1 Pacific Motorway at Cooranbong when it left the road, rolled, and caught fire.
\nThe driver and sole occupant died at the scene.
\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District are in attendance. A crime scene has been established and will be forensically examined.
\nDiversions are in place on the M1 between Freemans Drive and Palmers Road.
\nFor the latest on traffic information visit www.livetraffic.com.
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Diversions are in place after a fatal crash on the Central Coast. About 7.20pm (Saturday 24 August 2019), a vehicle was travelling north on the M1 Pacific Motorway at Cooranbong when it left the road, rolled, and caught fire. The driver and sole occupant died at the scene. Officers from Lake Macquarie Police District are … Continue reading “Fatal crash at Cooranbong, south of Newcastle”<\/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-3512","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\/3512","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=3512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}