A seven-year-old boy has died after the car he was travelling in crashed into a gully yesterday afternoon at Williamtown in the state\u2019s Hunter region.<\/p>\n
About 4.10pm (Wednesday 21 January 2015), a 35-year-old man was travelling in a Nissan Pathfinder with four children, aged between seven and 14-years-old, in southerly direction along Medowie Road.<\/p>\n
As the driver approached banked up traffic near the intersection of Nelson Bay Road it appears he has driven the 4WD along a grass section of road to the left of the waiting traffic.<\/p>\n
The driver lost control of the car near a gully and the 4WD became airborne and impacted heavily on the opposite side.<\/p>\n
A seven-year-old boy seated in the rear of the car suffered serious internal injuries and was transported to John Hunter Hospital; however he later died.<\/p>\n
The other occupants of the car were also taken to hospital for minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The driver was subjected to mandatory blood and urine samples.<\/p>\n
A crime scene was established and investigators from the Hunter Crash Investigation Unit along with local police attended. Traffic in the area was disrupted for six hours.<\/p>\n
A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner and investigations are continuing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A seven-year-old boy has died after the car he was travelling in crashed into a gully yesterday afternoon at Williamtown in the state\u2019s Hunter region. About 4.10pm (Wednesday 21 January 2015), a 35-year-old man was travelling in a Nissan Pathfinder with four children, aged between seven and 14-years-old, in southerly direction along Medowie Road. As … Continue reading “Child dies following fatal car crash – Williamtown”<\/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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio16","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}