A man has died after a car struck a tree in the state\u2019s north this afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 2.45pm (Wednesday 10 June 2026), emergency services were called to the New England Highway, near Milperra Drive, Muswellbrook, following reports of a crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and found a car had left the roadway and hit a tree, trapping the driver inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver \u2013 a 73-year-old man \u2013 was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics; however, he could not be revived and died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police have established a crime scene and officers attached to Crash Investigation Unit commenced an investigation into the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after a car struck a tree in the state\u2019s north this afternoon. About 2.45pm (Wednesday 10 June 2026), emergency services were called to the New England Highway, near Milperra Drive, Muswellbrook, following reports of a crash. Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended and found a car had left the … Continue reading “Man dies after car hits tree – Muswellbrook”<\/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-39391","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\/39391","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=39391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39392,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39391\/revisions\/39392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}