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Pedestrian dies following crash - Guildford

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Where: Guildford Road, Guildford, the street the release names · See the street on the map

Pedestrian dies following crash - Guildford
Guildford, New South Wales · NSW Police

The release

A woman has died following a crash in Sydney's southwest last week.

Just after 8am on Monday 21 September 2026, emergency services were called to Guildford Road, Guildford, following reports of a crash involving a pedestrian and a vehicle.

Officers attached to Cumberland Police Area Command attended and found a 68-year-old woman who had been struck by a car.

She was treated at the scene by NSW Ambulance paramedics before being taken to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition.

The driver of the vehicle – a 37-year-old woman – was taken to hospital for mandatory testing.

A crime scene was established and examined by specialist officers attached to the Crash Investigation Unit.

About 1.30am on Thursday 24 September 2026, police were notified that the 68-year-old woman had died in hospital.

A report will be prepared for the information of the Coroner.

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 Police
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Crime 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

2016-17: 913 per 100,0002017-18: 904 per 100,0002018-19: 900 per 100,0002019-20: 897 per 100,0002020-21: 951 per 100,0002021-22: 809 per 100,0002022-23: 897 per 100,0002023-24: 1,005 per 100,0002024-25: 1,001 per 100,0002025-26: 999 per 100,0002016-172021-222025-26
Recorded violent offences per 100,000 residents in Cumberland, 2016-17 to 2025-26 — up 9% over the period. Source: recorded crime published for New South Wales.

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