A young driver has been charged over a crash in Newcastle, New South Wales, that left two international students dead on the weekend.<\/p>\n
At about 11:15pm on Saturday emergency services were called to Maitland Road at Mayfield East after a car left the road, struck a power pole and burst into flames.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old driver and his back-seat passenger, 19, were assisted from the wreckage by passers-by.<\/p>\n
Both were take to John Hunter Hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
The remaining two passengers, aged 20 and 21, were freed by emergency service crews and taken to hospital with critical burns.<\/p>\n
They died a short time later.<\/p>\n
Following inquiries by the Crash Investigation Unit police charged the driver today.<\/p>\n
He was charged with eight offences, including two counts of dangerous driving occasioning death, dangerous driving occasioning grievous bodily harm and negligent driving occasioning death.<\/p>\n
The driver was refused bail and is expected to face court on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The ABC understands all four men were from Bangladesh and were studying at the University of Newcastle.<\/p>\n
Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) Belinda Tynan has described it as a “tragic loss”.<\/p>\n
“Our university community is deeply saddened by the tragic loss of two of our students over the weekend,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Our deepest sympathies are with their families and friends.”<\/p>\n
The university says support is being offered to staff and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young driver has been charged over a crash in Newcastle, New South Wales, that left two international…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113090,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[80729,43,80726,80728,80727,44,4277,41,39,42,40,23229],"class_list":["post-113089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bangladeshi-students-killed-newcastle","tag-headlines","tag-mayfield-crash","tag-newcastle-crash","tag-newcastle-crime","tag-news","tag-nsw-police","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-university-of-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}