{"id":9617,"date":"2020-12-14T11:56:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9617"},"modified":"2020-12-14T11:56:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T11:56:10","slug":"charges-laid-over-fatal-crash-lake-macquarie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/charges-laid-over-fatal-crash-lake-macquarie\/","title":{"rendered":"Charges laid over fatal crash \u2013 Lake Macquarie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged following an investigation into a fatal crash at Lake Macquarie last month.<br \/>\nEmergency services were called to Wakefield Road, Ryhope, just before 7.30am on Sunday 29 November 2020, after a Toyota Corolla and a Hyundai Getz collided head-on, trapping both drivers.<br \/>\nThe Hyundai driver, a 42year-old man, died at the scene<br \/>\nThe Toyota driver, a 38-year-old man, was freed and taken to John Hunter Hospital suffering leg injuries. He also underwent mandatory testing.<br \/>\nOfficers from Lake Macquarie Police District established a crime scene with the Crash Investigation Unit commencing an investigation.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, the 38-year-old man was arrested at Waratah Police Station today (Monday 14 December 2020).<br \/>\nHe was charged with dangerous driving occasioning death &#8211; drive manner dangerous, negligent driving (occasioning death), and not keep left of dividing line.<br \/>\nThe Jesmond man was granted conditional bail to appear at Newcastle Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/4\">on Thursday 4 February 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged following an investigation into a fatal crash at Lake Macquarie last month. Emergency services were called to Wakefield Road, Ryhope, just before 7.30am on Sunday 29 November 2020, after a Toyota Corolla and a Hyundai Getz collided head-on, trapping both drivers. The Hyundai driver, a 42year-old man, died at the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/14\/charges-laid-over-fatal-crash-lake-macquarie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Charges laid over fatal crash \u2013 Lake Macquarie&#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-9617","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\/9617","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=9617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}