<\/b>Police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal collision near Newcastle this morning.<\/p>\n
Just before 2.10am (Wednesday 9 March 2016), emergency services were called to a head-on collision between a car and a truck on Anderson Drive, Beresfield, about 20km north west of Newcastle.<\/p>\n
Ambulance Paramedics attempted to assist the male driver of the car; however he died at the scene. The man is yet to be formally identified.<\/p>\n
The male driver of the truck was uninjured and taken to Maitland Hospital for mandatory testing.<\/p>\n
Officers attached to Central Hunter Local Area Command are at the scene and have commenced investigating the incident.<\/p>\n
Traffic diversions are in place and are expected to remain for some hours. For information on road closures, visit www.livetraffic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n A report will be prepared for the Coroner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal collision near Newcastle this morning. Just before 2.10am (Wednesday 9 March 2016), emergency services were called to a head-on collision between a car and a truck on Anderson Drive, Beresfield, about 20km north west of Newcastle. Ambulance Paramedics attempted to assist the male driver of the car; however he … Continue reading “Police investigate fatal crash near Newcastle”<\/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-3602","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\/3602","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=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.onradio.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}