A man has died in a two-vehicle crash in Muswellbrook yesterday.
\nAbout 6.30pm (Tuesday 16 December 2020), emergency services were called to Thomas Mitchell Drive, Muswellbrook, after reports a Hyundai Getz and a Nissan Pulsar had collided.
\nThe Hyundai driver and sole occupant, a 28-year-old man, died at the scene.
\nThe driver of the Nissan, a 20-year-old woman, was freed by Fire and Rescue NSW and airlifted to John Hunter Hospital in a serious condition. A 10-year-old girl, who was travelling in the back seat, was also flown to hospital suffering suspected fractures.
\nA seven-week-old boy in the same vehicle escaped injury but was taken to hospital to be checked as a precaution.
\nOfficers from Hunter Valley Police District established a crime scene which is being forensically examined and have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
\nA report will be prepared for the Coroner.
\nAnyone with information about this incident, or dashcam vision, is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au. Information is treated in strict confidence. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A man has died in a two-vehicle crash in Muswellbrook yesterday. About 6.30pm (Tuesday 16 December 2020), emergency services were called to Thomas Mitchell Drive, Muswellbrook, after reports a Hyundai Getz and a Nissan Pulsar had collided. The Hyundai driver and sole occupant, a 28-year-old man, died at the scene. The driver of the Nissan, … Continue reading “One dead, two injured in crash – Muswellbrook”<\/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-9678","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\/9678","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=9678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}