Man charged following fatal crash - Auburn
Where: Normanby Road, Auburn, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
A man will face court today following the death of a three-year-old girl in Auburn.
About 2.05pm yesterday (Tuesday 15 September 2026), emergency services were called to Normanby Road, Auburn, following reports a child had been hit by a car.
Officers attached to Auburn Police Area Command attended and were told a three-year-old girl had been hit by a vehicle while it was entering a driveway.
The girl was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being transported to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition; however, she later died.
The driver – a 27-year-old man – was uninjured and was taken to Auburn Hospital for mandatory testing.
Following his release from hospital, he was taken to Auburn Police Station where he was charged with negligent driving (occasioning death).
— NSW PoliceCrime in the Cumberland council area
Cumberland is a council area in New South Wales with about 256,906 residents. It has a Crime Score 41 out of 100 (moderate), 241st 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 robbery (81st percentile), assault (40th percentile), homicide (58th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 46.
- Violent
- 999 per 100k
- Property
- 2,299 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 212 per 100k
- Theft
- 1,108 per 100k
See the full Cumberland crime profile
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