Accidental Death Coroner's Finding in Motor Fatality
At the Katoomba Police Court, on Thursday, April 21, Mr. H. J. Caton, District Coroner, held an inquiry into the tragic death of…
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Reducing Fatigue Accidents
That every driver should take at least half an hour's rest after a four-hour spell at the wheel is the subject of a decree planned by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →America's Road Accidents
The Automotive Safety Foundation of America has advised the N.R.M.A. that there are now many encouraging factors in the outlook…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Business Mans Tragic Death Accident on Great Western Highway
Frederick Wiliam Bates, aged 52, a builder of Boronia Street Bullaburra, was killed at about 4.45 p.m. on Saturday at a bend of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Knocked Down by Car Blackheath Resident Injured
Shortly after 6 o'clock on Tuesday evening, Mr. Carnwell, an aged resident of Blackheath, was knocked down by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Motor Accident Death of the Late Fredk. A. J. Wilson
Before Judge Perdian and Mr. Commissioner Halliday last week, Ethel May Wilson of Katoomba was awarded the full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Motor Accident Death of the Late Fredk. A. J. Wilson
In the court case, Wilson v. Booth Bros., held in Sydney, in which compensation for £800, the full amount claimed, was granted,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Painful Accident
Mr. Bert Fair, a butcher employed by the Mountain Meat Pty. Ltd., at Blackheath, suffered a painful accident when a marble, slab…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor–cyclist Killed Accident at Medlow Bath
Another serious accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, when a motor–cyclist was fatally injured…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Boy Injured
Whilst running across Katoomba Street near its junction with Gang Gang Street, Barry Farrell, aged 6, chanced to look behind him and,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain's Road Accidents Figures for 1937
A return has been presented to Parliament showing the number of accidents in Great Britain resulting in death or injury in which…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cars in Collision Passengers Injured in Mis Hap Near Blackheath
When about half a mile from Blackheath, a car driven by Mr. Franks, of Wentworth Falls, collided with another vehicle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narrow Escape From Injury Gar Accident on Shipley Road
Mr. Les Tonkin, his wife and family, also a brother and friend, had a narrow escape from serious injury when the car in which they…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Slipped on Step Woman Injured
Mrs. Ada Mellor, living in Falls Road, Katoomba, fell from the steps of a business house in Katoomba Street, on Wednesday, sustaining…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Brickworks
George Herbert Harvie, aged 37, a resident of 38 Carinya Road, Girraween, met with a painful accident at the Katoomba brickworks on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Road Fatality Cyclist Killed Near Mount Victoria Collision with Car
A collision between a Cyclist and a motor car on the Main Western Highway yesterday caused the death of Patrick…
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A serious motor cycler accident occurred on a dangerous hairpin bend near Mount Tomah on Sunday afternoon, when Andrew Maxwell…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unusual Accident
Rex. Cliff, Blackheath carrier, has had his right hand severely burnt in an unusual manner, at Sunny Corner…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Motor Accident Motor Cyclist Killed; Girl Injured
Frederick George Adams, 21, of 112 Woid's Avenue, Hurstville, died on Sunday morning, in the Anzac Memorial Hospital, from the effect…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision with Steam Roller Lorry Out of Control Accident on Whipcord Hill
Herbert Rayner, 54, of 68 Lawrence Street, Lithgow, bad a miraculous escape from death when the motor lorry be was…
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