A driver has died in hospital after a single-vehicle crash in the Hunter Valley area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 3:45pm on Tuesday 10 March 2026, emergency services were called to Leggetts Drive, Pelaw Main (2km south of Kurri Kurri), following reports of a crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On arrival, officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District located a single vehicle crashed into a power pole.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver \u2013 an 18-year-old man \u2013 was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police commenced an investigation into the circumstances of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 8.15am today (Sunday 15 March 2026), police received notification that the 18-year-old man had passed away in hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police will prepare a report for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A driver has died in hospital after a single-vehicle crash in the Hunter Valley area. About 3:45pm on Tuesday 10 March 2026, emergency services were called to Leggetts Drive, Pelaw Main (2km south of Kurri Kurri), following reports of a crash. On arrival, officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District located a single vehicle crashed … Continue reading “Man dies after single-vehicle crash \u2013 Hunter Valley”<\/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-37979","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\/37979","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=37979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37980,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37979\/revisions\/37980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}