Man dies following truck crash - Hornsby
Where: Leighton Place, Hornsby, the street the release names · See the street on the map
The release
A man has died following a fatal truck crash in Sydney’s Upper North Shore this morning.
Just before 3am (Thursday 17 September 2026), emergency services were called to Leighton Place, Hornsby, following reports of a truck crash.
Officers attached to Kuring Gai Police Area Command attended and were told a truck had rolled and hit a pole.
A crime scene has been established, and police have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the incident.
A report will be prepared for the information of the NSW coroner.
As inquiries continue, anyone with information – including CCTV or dashcam footage – is urged to contact Kuring Gai Police Area Command or Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000.
Motorists are urged to avoid the area, with live traffic updates available on livetraffic.com.
Anyone with information about this incident is urged to contact Crime Stoppers: 1800 333 000 or https://nsw.crimestoppers.com.au . Information is managed on a confidential basis. The public is reminded not to report information via NSW Police social media pages.
— NSW PoliceCrime in the Hornsby council area
Hornsby is a council area in New South Wales with about 155,484 residents. It has a Crime Score 16 out of 100 (very low), 349th 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 homicide (35th percentile), robbery (41st percentile), sexual offences (25th percentile). Five years earlier the same basis gave 18.
- Violent
- 460 per 100k
- Property
- 1,255 per 100k
- Break-ins
- 107 per 100k
- Theft
- 518 per 100k
See the full Hornsby crime profile
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