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It takes less than 25 minutes to drive from Bidwill to Cherrybrook on the M7 motorway.
But thereâs a yawning gap between those two Sydney neighbourhoods on the most basic of indicators: lifespan.
Bidwill resident Joyce Davison has lost her husband and two adult children since 2016.
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In Bidwillâs local public health area the median age of death was 69 years between 2014 and 2018, analysis by the Public Health Information Development Unit (PHIDU) at Torrens University shows.
But up the road at Cherrybrook the figure was 88 years.
That 19-year longevity gap is emblematic of striking disparities in health and economic welfare across relatively small distances in Greater Sydney.
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Police are investigating after a serious crash in the Blue Mountains overnight.
About 11.45pm (Saturday 23 January 2021), emergency services were called to the Great Western Highway, Katoomba, following reports a truck had crashed.
Police have been told the truck, carrying newspapers, left the road and crashed into an embankment, spilling its cargo across the highway.
Emergency services worked to free the male driver of the truck, aged 30, before he was treated and taken to Nepean Hospital in a serious condition.
Officers attached to Blue Mountains Police Area Command attended and have commenced an investigation into the circumstances surrounding the crash.
Police are appealing for anyone who may have dash cam footage of the incident to contact Crime Stoppers.