{"id":241364,"date":"2025-10-26T05:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241364\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T05:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T05:36:06","slug":"man-trapped-in-truck-rollover-which-spilt-20000-litres-of-rancid-fish-product-into-putty-road-creek-bed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/241364\/","title":{"rendered":"Man trapped in truck rollover which spilt 20,000 litres of rancid fish product into Putty Road creek bed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A man has remained trapped for hours following a truck rollover west of Cessnock which spilt 20,000 litres of rancid fish product into a creek bed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Around 25 emergency service personnel have been on the scene trying to free the man from the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Approximately 9am a truck has rolled over on Putty Road at Putty. The driver was trapped in the cabin of the truck,&#8221; Acting Superintendent Brad Brian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man is expected to be flown to John Hunter Hospital and police are investigating the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The man, believed to be in his 50s, was carrying fish product including fish guts and heads.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s approximately 20,000 litres of fish product the truck driver was carrying which was spilt into the dry creek bed,&#8221;  Acting Superintendent Brian said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Emergency services are awaiting the Environment Protection Authority NSW and local council to arrive on scene to investigate the spill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">They are also organising a trucking company to clean up the spill, which is expected to take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;It&#8217;s not causing any damage at the moment, given the fact the creek bed is dry so it&#8217;s not moving or running anyway,&#8221; Acting Superintendent Brian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has remained trapped for hours following a truck rollover west of Cessnock which spilt 20,000 litres&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,144149,144151,144148,144150,139755],"class_list":["post-241364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-fish-spill-truck-crash","tag-putty-road","tag-putty-rollover","tag-rancid-fish-product","tag-truck-rollover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241364","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=241364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}