<\/b>Police are investigating following a fatal crash at Wallsend overnight.<\/p>\n
Just after 9pm (Wednesday 16 December 2015), emergency services were called to Thomas Street, at the intersection of Brooks Street, following reports of a crash.<\/p>\n
Officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and found a white Daewoo hatchback on its roof after it crashed into two other vehicles.<\/p>\n
The 31-year-old male driver of the Daewoo died at the scene.<\/p>\n
The female drivers of the two other vehicles \u2013 a silver Subaru Impreza and a black Kia Rio \u2013 suffered minor injuries and shock and were treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance Paramedics.<\/p>\n
Both drivers were breath tested at the scene with a negative result.<\/p>\n
Initial investigations suggest the Daewoo ran a red light before crashing into the other vehicles.<\/p>\n
A crime scene was established and has been examined by specialist officers.<\/p>\n
The intersection was closed for a short time but is now open in all directions.<\/p>\n
Investigators are appealing for any witnesses to the incident to contact Newcastle City Police on (02) 4926 6599 or Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
Police are urging anyone with information in relation to these incidents to call Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or use the Crime Stoppers online reporting page: https:\/\/nsw.crimestoppers.com.au\/ Information you provide will be treated in the strictest of confidence. We remind people they should not report crime information via our Facebook and Twitter pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating following a fatal crash at Wallsend overnight. Just after 9pm (Wednesday 16 December 2015), emergency services were called to Thomas Street, at the intersection of Brooks Street, following reports of a crash. Officers from Newcastle City Local Area Command attended and found a white Daewoo hatchback on its roof after it crashed … Continue reading “Police investigate fatal crash – Wallsend”<\/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-3211","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\/3211","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=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}