{"id":8362,"date":"2020-09-25T07:16:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=8362"},"modified":"2020-09-25T07:16:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T07:16:48","slug":"woman-charged-after-driving-off-cliff-injuring-woman-bar-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/woman-charged-after-driving-off-cliff-injuring-woman-bar-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged after driving off cliff; injuring woman \u2013 Bar Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged after allegedly driving her car off a cliff and striking a woman on a beach at Newcastle yesterday.<br \/>\nAbout <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/3\">10.15am<\/a> (Thursday 24 September 2020), emergency services were called to Bar Beach after reports a Volkswagen Golf had driven over a cliff and landed on the beach.<br \/>\nA 40-year-old woman was struck by the car, while her 18-month-old child narrowly avoided being hit.<br \/>\nThe woman was taken to John Hunter Hospital with serious injuries.<br \/>\nThe driver, a 46-year-old woman, was also taken to hospital suffering multiple fractures. She remains in a serious condition.<br \/>\nOfficers from Newcastle City Police District attended and commenced an investigation.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, the woman was placed under arrest while in hospital today (Friday 25 September 2020).<br \/>\nThe Wallsend woman was charged with drive manner dangerous cause grievous bodily harm and a bedside hearing was conducted today where she was refused bail. She is due to re-appear in Newcastle Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/8\">on 1 October 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman has been charged after allegedly driving her car off a cliff and striking a woman on a beach at Newcastle yesterday. About 10.15am (Thursday 24 September 2020), emergency services were called to Bar Beach after reports a Volkswagen Golf had driven over a cliff and landed on the beach. A 40-year-old woman was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/09\/25\/woman-charged-after-driving-off-cliff-injuring-woman-bar-beach\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Woman charged after driving off cliff; injuring woman \u2013 Bar Beach&#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-8362","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\/8362","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=8362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8362\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}