19-Jun-2025 08:57 AM
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Sydney, June 19 (Reporter) A man has been arrested after a driver was stabbed following a crash north of Sydney in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Officers commenced an investigation after a 40-year-old man with stab wounds attended a police station in Cessnock, about 115 kilometers north of Sydney, the capital city of Australia's state of New South Wales, about 4:40 a.m. local time on Thursday.
A police statement said on Thursday that officers were told that the man was driving on a nearby road when his car collided with a sedan.
Following the collision, a passenger in the sedan allegedly stabbed the 40-year-old man in the leg.
Ambulance paramedics were called to the police station and treated the man before taking him to hospital.
A short time later, police officers were called to reports of a second two-vehicle crash. Officers arrived at the scene and located the sedan that was involved in the earlier incident and arrested a 34-year-old man.
He was taken to a local hospital under police guard.
Police investigations into the incident are ongoing...////...