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Driver charged following fatal crash - Point Clare

Driver charged following fatal crash - Point Clare
Clare, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A woman will face court today charged after a teenage boy died following a crash on the Central Coast yesterday.

About 2.20am (Monday 14 September 2026), emergency services were called to Alukea Avenue, Point Clare, following reports of a crash.

At the scene, officers attached to Brisbane Water Police District were told the Mazda sedan – allegedly stolen from Narara – had left the road at a bend on the rail overpass before it crashed into the rail corridor at Point Clare and rolled.

One of the passengers – a 15-year-old boy – was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to Gosford Hospital; however, he died on arrival.

The second passenger – an 18-year-old woman – was airlifted to a hospital in Westmead in a serious condition.

The driver – an 18-year-old woman – was treated by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to Gosford Hospital for mandatory testing under police guard.

A crime scene was established and officers attached to the Crash Investigation Unit commenced an investigation into the crash.

P1 driver under 25 drive at night with more than 1 passenger under 21 yrs.

A court attendance notice was also served on the woman for unrelated knife and drug offences.

She was refused bail to appear before Bail Division Court 6 today (Tuesday 15 September 2026).

— NSW Police
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Crime in the Balranald council area

Balranald is a council area in New South Wales with about 2,244 residents. It has a Crime Score 46 out of 100 (moderate), 205th of 362 councils nationally.

The score blends national percentile ranks for each published offence category with fixed severity weights; here it is driven most by assault (53rd percentile), sexual offences (53rd percentile), robbery (54th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 49.

Violent
1,337 per 100k
Property
3,119 per 100k
Break-ins
267 per 100k
Theft
1,515 per 100k

See the full Balranald crime profile

2016-17: 984 per 100,0002017-18: 607 per 100,0002018-19: 1,399 per 100,0002019-20: 1,241 per 100,0002020-21: 679 per 100,0002021-22: 671 per 100,0002022-23: 1,124 per 100,0002023-24: 1,374 per 100,0002024-25: 1,070 per 100,0002025-26: 1,337 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Balranald, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 36% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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