Date Time Police are responding to fatal crash in state’s central west A teenager has died in a two-vehicle crash in the state’s central west this afternoon. About 12.30pm (Friday 8 January 2021), emergency services responded to reports of a crash on Lachlan Valley Way, about 20km south of Cowra. On arrival, officers attached to Chifley Police District and NSW Ambulance Paramedics were told a 4WD, with a caravan attached, and a sedan, had collided. Despite the efforts of emergency services, the 18-year-old female driver of the sedan died at the scene. Her 18-year-old male passenger was airlifted to Canberra Hospital in a critical condition.