A man will appear in court today charged after crashing an unregistered car into a house in the Hunter region last night.
\nAbout 9.20pm (Saturday 10 October 2020), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were patrolling in the Raymond Terrace area, following reports of a suspicious vehicle.
\nPolice observed a silver Holden Commodore travelling on Links Road; however, it drove away in the opposite direction.
\nA short time later, the Holden was located crashed into a home on Scott Close, Raymond Terrace.
\nThe crash caused extensive damage to the front concrete veranda of the home, estimated to be valued at more than $40,000.
\nThe driver, a 23-year-old man, was arrested and taken to John Hunter Hospital for mandatory testing.
\nHe was later taken to Raymond Terrace Police Station and charged with drive recklessly\/furiously or speed\/manner dangerous, never licensed person drive vehicle on road and use unregistered registrable class A motor vehicle on road.
\nThe man was refused bail to appear at Newcastle Bail Court today (Sunday 11 October 2020).
\nInquiries are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man will appear in court today charged after crashing an unregistered car into a house in the Hunter region last night. About 9.20pm (Saturday 10 October 2020), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were patrolling in the Raymond Terrace area, following reports of a suspicious vehicle. Police observed a silver Holden Commodore travelling on … Continue reading “Unlicensed driver charged after crashing unregistered car into house – Raymond Terrace”<\/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-8660","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\/8660","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=8660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}