{"id":7810,"date":"2020-08-23T12:11:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=7810"},"modified":"2020-08-23T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T12:11:59","slug":"two-critical-following-crash-near-morisset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/two-critical-following-crash-near-morisset\/","title":{"rendered":"Two critical following crash near Morisset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a teenage girl are in a critical condition after a crash in the Lake Macquarie region today.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/2\">1.40pm<\/a> (Sunday 23 August 2020), emergency services were called to Wangi Road, Dora Creek, following reports of a crash involving a Hyundai hatchback towing a box trailer and a Holden Kruse sedan.<br \/>\nPolice have been told the Hyundai stopped on the side of the road and the occupants \u2013 an 84-year-old man, a 57-year-old woman and a 17-year-old girl \u2013 were out of the vehicle when the crash occurred.<br \/>\nThe man and teenage girl were taken to John Hunter Hospital where they are both reported to be in a critical condition.<br \/>\nThe woman sustained abrasions and was also taken to John Hunter Hospital.<br \/>\nThe Holden driver, an 87-year-old woman, was not injured, however, she has also been taken to hospital for mandatory testing.<br \/>\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District established a crime scene and commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.<br \/>\nPolice are urging any witnesses, or those with dashcam footage, to contact Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man and a teenage girl are in a critical condition after a crash in the Lake Macquarie region today. About 1.40pm (Sunday 23 August 2020), emergency services were called to Wangi Road, Dora Creek, following reports of a crash involving a Hyundai hatchback towing a box trailer and a Holden Kruse sedan. Police have &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/08\/23\/two-critical-following-crash-near-morisset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two critical following crash near Morisset&#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-7810","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\/7810","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=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}