No injuries in M1 crash
Early evening on Thursday, November 11, emergency crews were called to a car accident on the M1 about 100m south of the Tuggerah interchange. The car had careered off the…
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Routine stop yields various charges
A routine stop of a car on the M1 at Mooney Mooney on October 2 yielded quite a result for police. Just before 4:30pm officers from Brisbane Water Highway Patrol…
Three-month Peat Island consultation begins
Residents have until December 20 to make a submission on the recently released Planning Proposal for Mooney Mooney and Peat Island. Touted by the State Government as a proposal to…
Messy M1 mop up
Tuggerah Rural Fire Brigade crews had a mess to mop-up after about 20 containers of paint fell off the back of a vehicle on Friday, September 10. Both Tuggerah fire…
Crusher causes northbound traffic chaos
Tuggerah Rural Fire Brigade crews were called to the M1 freeway on Wednesday afternoon, September 8, after a large road crusher machine had come off the back of a truck….
Fuel spill causes M1 lane closures
Two lanes of the M1 were closed for a short time in the early hours of July 1 following a fuel spill at Cowan. At around 5am, Fire and Rescue…
B-double semi-trailer crashed into two work vehicles
Three road workers were hospitalised after a B-double semi-trailer crashed into two work trucks on the M1 Pacific Motorway in the early hours of Tuesday, June 1. Emergency services were…
Driver clocks 200km per hour in M1 car chase
Three children aged five and under were found in a car being driven by an unlicensed driver involved in a pursuit with police at Mooney Mooney on April 25. At…
Car fire on the M1 Motorway
A car burst into flames on the M1 Motorway at about midday on Tuesday, April 20. The car was in the southbound emergency breakdown lane, just under Dog Trap Rd,…
M1 Crash
A serious crash on the M1 held up traffic for some time on March 22. The accident involved two trucks which had collided at in the northbound lanes 200m north…
Mayhem and gridlock on the M1 and surrounds
There was mayhem on the M1 near Wyong on Thursday, March 11, due to damage to the road surface and reports of debris on the road near the Alison Rd…
M1 Service station roof hit by a truck
It took hours for emergency services to clear away debris from a truck crash on Monday night at the northbound service station on the M1, just past Wyong. A truck…
Labor MPs call for toll-free period on Northconnex
The Central Coast’s Labor MPs are ramping up their push for a one-month toll-free period when Northconnex opens to motorists later this year. Shadow Minister for the Central Coast, David…
30,000 tonnes of M1 rubble re-purposed
More than 30,000 tonnes of rubble that was once part of the M1 Pacific Motorway has been used to upgrade a network of Charmhaven fire trails and others across the…
Average bloke cannot afford extra tolls
[Forum] I read an article recently in Peninsula News in which Terrigal MP Mr Adam Crouch was spruiking the benefits of the North Connex for commuters to the city. I…
Widening of the Tuggerah to Doyalson motorway is complete
The widening of the Tuggerah to Doyalson stretch of the M1 motorway is now officially open. This means a clear run for motorists at 110kmh on three lanes north to…
NorthConnex to shave 15 minutes off trip to Sydney
Central Coast commuters who drive to Sydney could shave 15 minutes off their trip by avoiding multiple sets of traffic lights, once NorthConnex opens in a few months’ time, says…
Recycling a feature in M1 upgrade
One of Australia’s biggest concrete recycling projects has helped turn more than 200,000 tonnes of the old cracked surface of the M1 Pacific Motorway between Tuggerah and Doyalson into a…
M1 now three lanes north bound from Kariong to Doyalson
Traffic jams on the M1 Motorway between Tuggerah and Doyalson should soon be a thing of the past with the opening of all three lanes in the northbound section on…
Female passenger seriously injured on M1
Police appealing for witnesses and dashcam vision following a serious crash on the M1 at Mooney Mooney, where a female passenger was seriously injured. At about 9:40am on Monday, May…