{"id":3753,"date":"2019-09-26T22:03:56","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3753"},"modified":"2019-09-26T22:03:56","modified_gmt":"2019-09-26T22:03:56","slug":"woman-dies-following-head-on-crash-maitland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/woman-dies-following-head-on-crash-maitland\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dies following head-on crash &#8211; Maitland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has died following a head-on crash in Maitland this morning.<br \/>\nAbout 2.30am today (Friday 27 September 2019), emergency services were called to Cessnock Road, Maitland, following reports a Kia Rio and a Ford Falcon sedan have collided head-on.<br \/>\nThe female driver and sole occupant of the Kia Rio, believed to be aged in her 50s, died at the scene and is yet to be formally identified.<br \/>\nThe male driver and sole occupant of the Ford Falcon sedan, believed to be aged in his 50s, sustained a back injury. He was taken to hospital for treatment and will also undergo mandatory blood and urine testing.<br \/>\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District with assistance by officers from the Newcastle Crash Investigation Unit will investigate the circumstances surrounding the crash.<br \/>\nCessnock Road is closed between the New England Highway and Gillieston Road while the scene is being examined.<br \/>\nMotorists are advised to visit <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.livetraffic.com\/\">www.livetraffic.com<\/a> for the latest traffic information.<br \/>\nA report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has died following a head-on crash in Maitland this morning. About 2.30am today (Friday 27 September 2019), emergency services were called to Cessnock Road, Maitland, following reports a Kia Rio and a Ford Falcon sedan have collided head-on. The female driver and sole occupant of the Kia Rio, believed to be aged in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/09\/26\/woman-dies-following-head-on-crash-maitland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Woman dies following head-on crash &#8211; Maitland&#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-3753","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\/3753","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=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}