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Central Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

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Holiday Accidents 2 Deaths: Many Injured in Gosford District

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

It is seldom that the XMas an New Year holidays pass without a tragic roll of deaths and injuries. This year was no exception. A dreadful railway collision in France, the destruction of an Imperial Airways plane in Belgium, together with all on board, and many…

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Car Into Creek Collision at Narara Bridge

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

On Saturday, Dec. 23, two cars collided on a bridge over Narara Creek, and the smaller was forced into the creek. In it were Mr. E. Tomlin, of…

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Motor Cyclist Injured Hit by Two Cars

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

A motor cyclist named Leonard Sharp, was on Wednesday, Dec. 27th, involved in a nasty accident on the Sydney Road about four miles from…

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Baby Car Overturns Accident Near Gosford Baths

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

On Christmas Eve a baby ear driven by Miss Mavis Polldore, 19, of Brighton-le-Sands, capsized on the Terrigal Road near the Gosford baths, and was…

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Holiday Accidents Woman Killed Car Leaves Gosford-sydney Road

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 6

The need for increased telephone facilities on the Gosford-Peat's Ferry Road was tragically demonstrated on the night of Dec. 25th, when a…

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No Accidents

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 11

Though several accidents, fortunately mostly of a minor nature, occurred in different parts of the Shire over the Christmas holidays, nothing in either…

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Car Overturns Two People Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Yesterday, a car returning from Sydney overturned on the Pacific Highway about two miles south of Gosford, and two of the occupants received painful…

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Motor Accident Woman Hurt at Lisarow

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 1

When two cars met at Lisarow railway crossing on Sunday, one was foreed into a post and was extensively damaged, and one passenger was taken…

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Axe Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 9

On Tuesday morning last while playing at his parents home with a younger brother, Don Andrews, the five years' old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Andrews,…

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Another Bush Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 18 January 1934 · page 9

Mr. Vera Clifton, of Lisarow, one of the district's outstanding cricketers, met with another painful accident while working in the bush at Ourimbah. It…

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Boy Shot in Leg Serious Accident on Mountain

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 25 January 1934 · page 6

William Sidney Edge, aged 16, of Mangrove Creek, was seriously injured on Tuesday in a peculiar gun accident. He and a friend, Arthur Gann, were…

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Cyclist Injured Collides with Motor Lorry

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 6

On Wednesday of last week Mr. Cecil Taylor, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Taylor, of Ourimbah, was cycling from Sydney to Ourimbah, to visit his…

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Car Over Cliff Two Injured on Mountain

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 1

Further evidence of the need for telephone facilities at Calga was provided by a serious motor accident on the Mountain on Sunday, when a car,…

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Accident at Sports Woman Fractures Wrist

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Thursday 1 February 1934 · page 1

On Saturday, at the Highland Gathering at Gosford, Mrs. Charlton, a visitor from Sydney, sustained a fractured left wrist when some flooring…

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Narrow Escape Accident at Morgan's Corner

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 6

Straying stock and a dangerous corner both contributed to what was a near tragedy last week. Graham Berrell, whilst driving a Dodge car, was…

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Cricket Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 7 February 1934 · page 9

While batting with the Ourimbah team against the Kamval seconds last Saturday, Peter Sohier, of Ourimbah, was injured. The batsman attempted…

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Cyclist Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 6

Ernest Bailey, 19, of Cut Rock Rd., Ourimbah fell heavily on Sunday, during a race held by the Gosford Cycle Club at the Showground. The tyre…

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Terrigral Resident Injured

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 6

As an indirect result of the recent big fire at Moree, when the Criterion Hotel, a butcher's, and four other shops were destroyed, Mr. Sam Nell, a…

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"The Accidental Adventurer,"

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 11

"Parkman for adventure" is the slogan of the publishers, and anyone who likes a slice of adventure, salted with the sea, and spiced with…

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"Bitten" by Dead Snake. a Remarkable Accident

The Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate · Wednesday 14 February 1934 · page 11

During a hiking trip to the summit of Mount Erica (Vic), J. Davis, a member of a party of Yallourn Rover Scouts, was infected by snake poison…

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