The force of the crash was so great, the 50-year-old’s vehicle flipped onto its side.
He luckily escaped injury.
It’s alleged, the intoxicated female driver was backing out of a carpark, onto Thomas Coke Drive, when she hit the Hilux.
Emergency services were called to the scene soon after and Hunter Valley PD began investigating.
The woman was breathalysed and allegedly returned a high range reading of 0.189 – more than three times the legal limit.
She was arrested and taken to Maitland Police Station, where her license was suspended.
She was charged with high range PCA and will appear in Maitland Local Court in early February.
Cedar Close, Metford
A woman has been charged after allegedly spitting on police during an domestic violence related arrest in the Hunter yesterday.
Officers were called to a home on Cedar Close at Metford around 5.10pm, following reports of domestic violence.
Inside the home, they spoke with the couple before attempting to arrest the 48-year-old woman.
Police say she became aggressive and spat on both officers, before kicking and threatening them as they placed her into the police car.
She was taken to Maitland Police Station where she was charged with assault (DV related), not comply with direction re spitting/coughing – COVID-19, and assault police.
Man, 24, charged with murder and rape of three-year-old girl
A 24-year-old man, who has ties to the victim s family, has been arrested and charged for rape and murder after a lifeless 3-month-old baby was found inside a home near Sydney, Australia
A man has been charged with the rape and murder of a baby girl in Australia (Image: Getty Images/EyeEm)
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A man has been charged with murder and rape following the death of a baby in Newcastle.
Paramedics attended an address in Hamilton South, north of Sydney, about 10.40am on Tuesday August 4, after a three-month old girl was discovered unresponsive at the scene.
The infant was then rushed to John Hunter Hospital where she later died.
NSW Police charged a 24-year-old man with murder and sexual intercourse with a child under age of 10 years on Wednesday (stock image)
Officers from the Newcastle City Police District then established a homicide investigation in October in a bid to investigate the circumstances behind the infant’s death.
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