A woman has been charged following a fatal two-car crash at Belmont North earlier this year.
\nAbout 7.25am on Monday 13 May 2019, a Ford Falcon was travelling south on the Pacific Highway while a Mitsubishi Colt was travelling north on the same road, when the cars collided in the northbound lane.
\nThe driver of the Mitsubishi, a 50-year-old Belmont North woman, died at the scene.
\nThe driver of the Ford, a 32-year-old woman also from Belmont North, was taken to John Hunter Hospital for treatment and mandatory testing.
\nYesterday (Wednesday 23 October 2019), the 32-year-old woman presented to Newcastle Police Station and was arrested.
\nShe has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death (DUI), dangerous driving occasioning death (drive in a dangerous manner), negligent driving causing death, drive under the influence of a drug, drive with illicit drug present in blood and not keep left of media strip.
\nShe was granted conditional bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court on Thursday 14 November 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A woman has been charged following a fatal two-car crash at Belmont North earlier this year. About 7.25am on Monday 13 May 2019, a Ford Falcon was travelling south on the Pacific Highway while a Mitsubishi Colt was travelling north on the same road, when the cars collided in the northbound lane. The driver of … Continue reading “Woman charged over fatal Belmont North crash”<\/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-3997","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\/3997","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=3997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}