An investigation is underway after a bus and a ute crashed before hitting a house in the Lake Macquarie area this morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Emergency services were called to the intersection of Clydebank and Oakwood roads at Balmoral shortly before 6am (Friday 17 April 2026), and found two people trapped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A woman \u2013 who was a passenger in the ute \u2013 was released by Fire and Rescue NSW before being taken to John Hunter Hospital suffering multiple injuries. She\u2019s reported to be in a critical condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The 72-year-old male bus driver was taken to the same hospital after also being released by Fire and Rescue NSW. He\u2019s being checked for a suspected leg injury and is reported to be in a stable condition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Three other people travelling in the ute, the 43-year-old man driving, his wife and eight-year-old son have been taken to the same hospital to be checked as a precaution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two people in the home at the time were not injured; however, the house has sustained significant structural damage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An investigation is underway after a bus and a ute crashed before hitting a house in the Lake Macquarie area this morning. Emergency services were called to the intersection of Clydebank and Oakwood roads at Balmoral shortly before 6am (Friday 17 April 2026), and found two people trapped. A woman \u2013 who was a passenger … Continue reading “Investigation underway after bus and ute collide then hit house in Lake Macquarie”<\/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-38468","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\/38468","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=38468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38469,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38468\/revisions\/38469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}