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Blue Mountains · Accidents

Accidents, 1924

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Motor Smash at Lawson Two Cars Collide and Narrowly Escape a Drop of 500 Feet Occupants Injured

The Katoomba Daily · Wednesday 8 October 1924 · page 1

By the smallest of margins, two motor cars escaped a drop of three hundred feet over a cliff, after colliding at a dangerous bend in the…

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Motor Cycle Accident Good Townsman Injured

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 10 October 1924 · page 4

About 8 o'clock this morning, our respected townsman, Mr. John G. House, of the firm of House Bros., Katoomba and Blackheath, had a…

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Motor Accidents

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 17 October 1924 · page 5

On Wednesday last, John L. Drinnan, of Horsley Street, Revesby, was driving a motor lorry, laden with work from Mudgee to Sydney, when…

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Plucky Visitor Lady Injured in Last Year's R.a. Show Is at Katoomba

The Katoomba Daily · Monday 20 October 1924 · page 1

Miss Vera McMillan, the well- known lady rider, of the Waikato district, New Zealand, is enjoying a holiday visit to Katoomba as the…

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[?]..Ily Toll of Accidents [?]..nriid ZAM-BUK Healing Saves Another Scalded Foot

The Katoomba Daily · Tuesday 28 October 1924 · page 3

Every day brings its toll of accidents! Even in your own home, cuts, [?].. scalds, bruises, etc., are in [?]..able. In all such emergencies…

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Shocking Accident on Caves Road Motor Car and Motor Cycle Collide Two Killed, Three Injured

The Katoomba Daily · Tuesday 4 November 1924 · page 1

Between six and seven o'clock on Sunday evening a motor car containing five men including the driver, collided with another car about a quarter of a mile off the Good Forest Post Office. Two men, Paddy Fitzgerald and Duncan Forbes, were killed…

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TABLOIDS Nasty Accident

The Katoomba Daily · Tuesday 4 November 1924 · page 2

Mr. Jack Beresford, of Warm Avenue, met with a bad accident Sunday. He was chopping up [?] wood, and the axe slipping, [?]…

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Motor Accident Lorry Collides with a Verandah Post

The Katoomba Daily · Saturday 15 November 1924 · page 1

The danger of leaving small boys in charge of stationary motor cars was exemplified on Friday afternoon, when a motor lorry…

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Straying Cattle Cyclists Injured by Horse at Echo Point

The Katoomba Daily · Thursday 20 November 1924 · page 2

While three cyclists, Jim, Hector and Jack Muir, were proceeding along Panorama Drive at Echo Point on Tuesday night, a horse, which…

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Boating Fatality on Nepean River

The Blue Mountain Echo · Friday 28 November 1924 · page 6

While returning to the wharf on Tuesday afternoon, a boat cupsized on the Nepean River and upset the occupants (three ladies). Mrs. Violet…

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Motor Accident Car Strikes Motor Cycle Near Level Crossing

The Katoomba Daily · Wednesday 24 December 1924 · page 1

"I don't know. I suppose I was in the wrong," remarked John McGuckin, the driver of a motor car, when asked by…

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Brakes Fail to Act Bus Overturns Within Ten Yards of Cliff Seven Passengers Injured

The Katoomba Daily · Tuesday 30 December 1924 · page 1

Only the presence of mind of the driver prevented a motor bus, carrying some nine or ten passengers, from being precipitated over Gdvetts Leap--a drop of about two thousand feet--on Sunday afternoon…

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