A groom is one of two people in a critical condition after a minibus crashed on the way to a wedding in the NSW Hunter Valley.<\/p>\n
Four others were injured in the crash.<\/p>\n
Emergency crews were called to Mount View Road at Mount View, near Cessnock, just after 10:30am following reports a minibus had rolled about 50 metres down an embankment.<\/p>\n
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Police say the minibus rolled 50 metres down an embankment.\u00a0 (Supplied)<\/p>\n
The minibus was carrying the groom and his groomsmen to the wedding in Mount View.<\/p>\n
NSW Ambulance Acting Superintendent Jake Broughton-Rouse said six people were in the minibus when it crashed.<\/p>\n
“The vehicle rolled approximately seven times,” he said.<\/p>\n
Mr Broughton-Rouse said it took crews 45 minutes to cut a 60-year-old man out of the minibus.<\/p>\n
He was flown to John Hunter Hospital in a critical condition with head injuries.<\/p>\n
A 50-year-old man was flown to hospital via helicopter in a critical condition with limb injuries.<\/p>\n
The remaining four passengers were taken to hospital via road and are in a stable condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weather may have been a factor<\/p>\n
Hunter Valley District Commander Superintendent Steve Laksa said it was a tragic situation that could have been worse.<\/p>\n
“They hadn’t even got to the wedding yet. We’re very fortunate that the injuries weren’t fatal,” he said<\/p>\n
The NSW Police Crash Investigation Unit is looking into what caused the crash.<\/p>\n
Superintendent Laksa said the weather conditions may have been a factor.<\/p>\n
“It’s drizzling, dirt road, unsealed road, could have all been factors in the collision,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver will undergo mandatory drug and alcohol testing.<\/p>\n
But Superintendent Laksa said “there was no information or indication that alcohol was a factor”. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Mount View Road is expected to stay closed for some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A groom is one of two people in a critical condition after a minibus crashed on the way…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30506,43,30508,30501,30503,30505,30502,44,30504,41,39,42,40,30507],"class_list":["post-32908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-bus-crash","tag-headlines","tag-hunter-valley-crash","tag-minibus-crash","tag-minibus-rollover","tag-mount-view-crash","tag-mount-view-road","tag-news","tag-single-vehicle-crash","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-wedding-bus-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908","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=32908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}