{"id":914535,"date":"2026-10-03T10:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914535\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T10:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T10:22:10","slug":"newcastle-crash-as-it-happened-10-people-injured-driver-arrested-after-car-hits-knights-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/914535\/","title":{"rendered":"Newcastle crash as it happened: 10 people injured, driver arrested after car hits Knights crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 18-year-old driver was known to police before Saturday\u2019s crash, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner David Waddell said, as he stressed the incident was not believed to be targeted.<\/p>\n<p>Waddell said police were investigating reports that the teenager had been driving erratically on the way to the crash site.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Police inspect the car allegedly involved in the incident at Wallsend in Newcastle.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9e22703aec7667211040be0c25678470c1e48ba3.jpeg\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>Police inspect the car allegedly involved in the incident at Wallsend in Newcastle.Sitthixay Ditthavong<\/p>\n<p>The crash was not believed to be targeted, Waddell said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere [are] no concerns other than this being a tragic incident where a young person has done the wrong thing and driven irresponsibly, driven erratically, and obviously lost control of the vehicle into the crowd, but there\u2019s no suggestion at all that it\u2019s targeted or any ill motive\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The actions of witnesses who confronted the driver, and any possible offences committed after the crash, would be investigated, Waddell said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 18-year-old driver was known to police before Saturday\u2019s crash, NSW Police Assistant Commissioner David Waddell said, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-914535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914535","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=914535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}