{"id":7507,"date":"2020-07-30T15:22:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:22:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7507"},"modified":"2020-07-30T15:22:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T15:22:42","slug":"fatal-crash-near-charlestown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/fatal-crash-near-charlestown\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash near Charlestown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash on the state\u2019s Lake Macquarie District.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/1\">9.25pm<\/a> (Thursday 30 July 2020), emergency services were called to the Pacific Highway at Charlestown, following reports a car collided with a telegraph pole.<br \/>\nPolice have been told the vehicle was travelling north on the Pacific Highway when it left the road and crashed.<br \/>\nEmergency services were unable to revive the driver, who was the sole occupant of the car. The driver died at the scene.<br \/>\nThe driver, believed to be a man aged in his 40s, is yet to be formally identified.<br \/>\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District secured a crime scene and have established traffic diversions, which will remain in place while police conduct their investigations.<br \/>\nPolice will prepare a report for the information of the Coroner.<br \/>\nMotorists are urged to avoid the area. For the latest traffic information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livetraffic.com\/\">www.livetraffic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash on the state\u2019s Lake Macquarie District. About 9.25pm (Thursday 30 July 2020), emergency services were called to the Pacific Highway at Charlestown, following reports a car collided with a telegraph pole. Police have been told the vehicle was travelling north on the Pacific Highway when it left the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/07\/30\/fatal-crash-near-charlestown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fatal crash near Charlestown&#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-7507","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\/7507","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=7507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}