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Police update: Officer hit by trail bike during pursuit at Maitland
A police officer remains in hospital after being struck by a trail bike during a pursuit in the Hunter region last night.
Just before 7pm (Wednesday 14 April 2021), officers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District initiated a pursuit with the trail bike on the New England Highway at Maitland.
A short time later, a senior constable who had exited a police vehicle was on foot near High Street, when the trail bike struck him.
The rider was ejected, however, the motorcycle continued and hit a Mitsubishi Pajero travelling north on the New England Highway.
A teenage girl has died after being pulled unconscious from the water at a public pool in the Hunter region of NSW.
The 13-year-old girl was pulled from the pool after getting into trouble in the water at Maitland Aquatic Centre on Les Darcy Drive, Maitland, at about 3.30pm on Friday.
Lifeguards tried desperately to revive her with CPR but to no avail.
Police and emergency responders at the scene on Friday
Maitland Aquatic Centre (pictured) where the tragedy took place on Friday
Paramedics took over and she was rushed to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition where she later died, NSW Police said in a release on Friday evening.