<\/b>A child has suffered fatal injuries, and her 11-month-old brother remains in a critical condition after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed on the New England Highway near Willow Tree tonight.<\/p>\n
About 7pm (Monday 17 August 2015), a woman was driving her sedan northbound on the highway, about 4km north of Willow Tree, when the vehicle rolled, landing down an embankment off the side of the road.<\/p>\n
A passer-by stopped and assisted, locating a two-year-old child deceased, and an 11-month-old boy suffering critical injuries.<\/p>\n
Police from Oxley and Hunter Valley Local Area Command\u2019s attended the scene and co-ordinated a response with the assistance of NSW Ambulance, Rural Fire Service, VRA, and Westpac Rescue Helicopter.<\/p>\n
The infant was flown to John Hunter Hospital where he remains in a critical condition.<\/p>\n
The woman, who is the mother of the children, was taken to Tamworth Base Hospital where she remains in a stable condition.<\/p>\n
Crash Investigators from Tamworth are on scene and will conduct a full investigation, and a brief will be prepared for the Coroner<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash is asked to contact the Crash Investigation Unit at Tamworth on (02) 6768 2890, or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A child has suffered fatal injuries, and her 11-month-old brother remains in a critical condition after the vehicle they were travelling in crashed on the New England Highway near Willow Tree tonight. About 7pm (Monday 17 August 2015), a woman was driving her sedan northbound on the highway, about 4km north of Willow Tree, when … Continue reading “Two-year-old girl killed in crash – Hunter Region”<\/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-2668","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\/2668","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=2668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}