Overview
- A three-year-old girl was struck by a four-wheel drive as it pulled into a driveway in the Sydney suburb of Auburn; paramedics treated her at the scene and she was taken to Westmead Hospital, where she later died.
- The driver, an uninjured 27-year-old man, was taken to Auburn Hospital for mandatory testing before being released into police custody.
- Auburn Police charged the man with negligent driving occasioning death and granted him conditional bail for a first court appearance at Burwood Local Court.
- Police describe the charging and court listing as the opening steps in a criminal inquiry and say further investigations are ongoing before any final legal outcome is reached.
- The case highlights the human toll of low-speed driveway collisions and will proceed through forensic checks, police inquiries and the local court process where evidence and next steps will be heard.