A man has died after a single-vehicle crash in the Hunter region this morning.
\nAround 2.35am today (Saturday 14 December 2019), a silver Toyota Landcruiser utility was travelling on Sandy Creek Road, Mount Vincent \u2013 near Cessnock \u2013 when it left the road and collided with a concrete drain, before rolling on its roof.
\nOfficers attached to the Hunter Valley Police District attended, along with NSW Ambulance paramedics.
\nThe driver, and the sole occupant of the vehicle \u2013 a 23-year-old male \u2013 died at the scene. He is yet to be formally identified.
\nA crime scene has been established and investigations into the circumstances surrounding the crash are continuing.
\nA report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died after a single-vehicle crash in the Hunter region this morning. Around 2.35am today (Saturday 14 December 2019), a silver Toyota Landcruiser utility was travelling on Sandy Creek Road, Mount Vincent \u2013 near Cessnock \u2013 when it left the road and collided with a concrete drain, before rolling on its roof. Officers … Continue reading “Single vehicle fatal – Hunter region”<\/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-4609","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\/4609","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=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}