<\/b>Police are investigating after a fatal collision at Whittingham last night.<\/p>\n
About 5.15pm (Tuesday 29 December 2015), emergency services were called to the New England Highway, 5km south of Singleton, following reports of a two car collision.<\/p>\n
Officers from Hunter Valley Local Area Command attended and found two cars, a VW utility and a Holden had collided head on.<\/p>\n
The driver and sole occupant of the Holden, a woman, died at the scene.<\/p>\n
There were four male occupants in the utility, the driver aged 21, and three passengers aged 40, 14 and 12, were taken to John Hunter Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Newcastle City Crash Investigation Unit attended and examined the scene.<\/p>\n
The New England Highway was closed for a number of hours but has since re-opened.<\/p>\n
Investigators are appealing for anyone who witnessed the collision or has information that may assist with their inquiries to call Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n
A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Police are investigating after a fatal collision at Whittingham last night. About 5.15pm (Tuesday 29 December 2015), emergency services were called to the New England Highway, 5km south of Singleton, following reports of a two car collision. Officers from Hunter Valley Local Area Command attended and found two cars, a VW utility and a Holden … Continue reading “Fatal collision – Whittingham”<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tcrn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257","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=3257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}