A man has died following a crash at a mine site in the Hunter Valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Just after 1pm today (Monday 3 August 2026), emergency services were called to a coal mine on Watt Street, Warkworth (approximately 23km west of Singleton), following reports of a crash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended, along with Fire and Rescue NSW and located a man who had been struck by a truck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man \u2013 believed to be aged in his 50s – died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He is yet to be formerly identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died following a crash at a mine site in the Hunter Valley. Just after 1pm today (Monday 3 August 2026), emergency services were called to a coal mine on Watt Street, Warkworth (approximately 23km west of Singleton), following reports of a crash. Officers attached to Hunter Valley Police District attended, along with … Continue reading “Man dies following crash at a mine – Singleton”<\/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-40208","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\/40208","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=40208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40209,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40208\/revisions\/40209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}