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Police are responding to fatal crash near Wauchope
A man has died, and a woman was injured following a crash on the state’s Mid North Coast today.
Shortly before 1.30pm (Monday 11 January 2021), emergency services were called to the Oxley Highway at Huntingdon – west of Wauchope – after reports a Toyota Prado towing a caravan, travelling eastbound, had left the road and crashed.
The driver, a man believed to be aged in his 70s, died at the scene and is yet to be formally identified.
The passenger, a 71-year-old woman, was taken to Port Macquarie Base Hospital in a stable condition.
Surfer Chantelle Doyle mauled by a shark on the NSW mid-north coast in August
Mother-of-one was attacked while surfing at Shelly Beach in Port Macquarie
Her husband Mark Rapley rushed to her side to save her by punching the beast
Ms Doyle has described how she accepted she could die during horrific attack I sort of said yes to all those things - yes it s arrived, yes, I m OK to die , she said