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10 in hospital, one critically injured, and a teen driver in custody after serious crash at Edgeworth

Simon McCarthy
Updated September 27 2020 - 11:14am, first published 8:30am
Mother-of-three Tamika Wever, 24, was critically injured in the crash at Lake Macquarie in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Mother-of-three Tamika Wever, 24, was critically injured in the crash at Lake Macquarie in the early hours of Saturday morning.

A witness has described seeing scenes of "carnage and heartbreak" after coming across a horror collision involving a maxi-taxi at Edgeworth in the early hours of Saturday morning that left 10 people in hospital, one in a critical condition, and a teenage driver in police custody.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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