A teenage boy has died following a crash in the state\u2019s Hunter region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 8:30pm yesterday (Sunday 15 February 2026), emergency services were called to Wollombi Road, Bishops Bridge (approximately 10km west of Maitland), following reports of a collision between a car and a push bike.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On arrival, officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police District found a 15-year-old boy with serious injuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics; however, he died at the sene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police established a crime scene and an investigation into the cause of the incident has commenced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As inquiries continue, anyone with information about this incident, or CCTV, is urged to contact Maitland Police or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A teenage boy has died following a crash in the state\u2019s Hunter region. About 8:30pm yesterday (Sunday 15 February 2026), emergency services were called to Wollombi Road, Bishops Bridge (approximately 10km west of Maitland), following reports of a collision between a car and a push bike. On arrival, officers attached to Port Stephens Hunter Police … Continue reading “Fatal bike crash near Maitland”<\/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-37428","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\/37428","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=37428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37429,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37428\/revisions\/37429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}