{"id":5153,"date":"2020-02-19T04:36:53","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T04:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5153"},"modified":"2020-02-19T04:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T04:36:53","slug":"three-vehicles-damaged-after-rocks-thrown-from-overpass-muswellbrook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/three-vehicles-damaged-after-rocks-thrown-from-overpass-muswellbrook\/","title":{"rendered":"Three vehicles damaged after rocks thrown from overpass \u2013 Muswellbrook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance after rocks were thrown from an overpass in the Hunter region overnight.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/1\">10.30pm<\/a> (Tuesday 18 February 2020), police have been told a group of people, not further described, threw rocks from the railway overpass at Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, onto oncoming traffic.<br \/>\nThe rocks have caused damaged to three vehicles traveling on the roadway below \u2013 a B double truck suffered damage to a rear window, another B double truck suffered dents and paint damage to its roof, and the front windscreen was smashed on a Nissan Murano SUV.<br \/>\nNo one was injured.<br \/>\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District were notified and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.<br \/>\nHunter Valley Police District Duty Officer, Chief Inspector Guy Guiana, urged any witnesses or anyone with dashcam vision in the area at the time to come forward.<br \/>\n\u201cWhile it\u2019s unfortunate that three vehicles were damaged, it was extremely lucky no one was injured in the incident,\u201d Ch\/Insp Guiana said.<br \/>\n\u201cThrowing rocks at oncoming traffic is a very serious matter and we are keen to speak to anyone with any information about this dangerous incident.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are appealing for public assistance after rocks were thrown from an overpass in the Hunter region overnight. About 10.30pm (Tuesday 18 February 2020), police have been told a group of people, not further described, threw rocks from the railway overpass at Bridge Street, Muswellbrook, onto oncoming traffic. The rocks have caused damaged to three &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/19\/three-vehicles-damaged-after-rocks-thrown-from-overpass-muswellbrook\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three vehicles damaged after rocks thrown from overpass \u2013 Muswellbrook&#8221;<\/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-5153","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\/5153","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=5153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}