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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

625 stories in Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee)'s papers · page 6 of 32

Crash at Speedway Two Riders Injured

National Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: Max Grosskreutz and Bill Rogers (Victoria) were injured at the Speedway tonight. It is believed Rogers has a fractured skull…

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Un. Commander Fatally Injured in Heavy Seas

Central Western Daily · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 1

Swept by a large wave against the ship's breakwater and foremost gun turret on HMS Newfoundland,…

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Car Crashes Into Shop Window Seven Persons Injured at Newtown

National Advocate · Saturday 2 March 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Friday: After a type bathurst a taxi cab skidded on the welfare of King Street, Newtown, today, crashed across a crowded footpath,…

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Bus Conductor Badly Injured

National Advocate · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sunday: A 35 years old bus conductor, Raymond French, of Hamilton, was critically injured to-day outside Newcastle railway station…

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Plane Smash No One Injured

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 4 March 1946 · page 7

The Charleville-Sydney mail service plane met with an accident at T[?]h aerodrome on Wednesday morning,…

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Patient Fatally Injured Melbourne

National Advocate · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 1

A patient at the Royal Melbourne Hospital. Mrs. Jesle Horsburgh (44) disappeared from a ward today. Later her dead body was discovered four…

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Men Drowned As Russian Tanker Breaks in Two Koinak (Alaska)

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 6 March 1946 · page 1

It is described that futures men were drowned when a Russian treasure brake in two last month Only the man survived of…

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Gulgong District News Collision Between Motor Car and Cycle

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 7 March 1946 · page 18

Young Lloyd Gossage, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Gossage, of Gulgong, had a miraculous escape from very serious injury,…

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Wheeler Injured

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 1

Mr. T. Gardiner, of Tweed-road, a wheeler at the State Coal Mine, received a bruised back and sprained wrist when he was jammed between…

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Oberon Resident Injured

National Advocate · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 2

Only accident, to mar the opening of the 47th. Show of the Oberon A. H. and P Society yesterday, occurred when a well known, elderly resident,…

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Car Hits Pole; One Man Injured

Central Western Daily · Friday 8 March 1946 · page 3

When, out of control, a car crashed into a telephone pole on the Forbes Road on Wednesday, one man was…

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Burned to Death Remarkable Fatality

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 5

A 22-months-old baby boy was burned to death at Bournewood, near Wellington, in a most unusual manner…

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Man Drowned At Bronte Public Hinder Rescue Efforts

National Advocate · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A man was drowned and his would-be rescue exhausted when the public tampered with the rescue lines at Bronte…

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Dead and Injured Mixed in British Football Crash London

Central Western Daily · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 1

After the Bolton Stoke Cup tie match had been underway for a quarete of an hour at Burnden Park ground, Botton,…

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Truck Accident

National Advocate · Monday 11 March 1946 · page 2

A motor truck driven by Mr. Henry Storey, of Wattle Flat, was damaged on Saturday when it ran off the Peel Road about eight miles from…

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Firemen Injured Engine Crashes at Leichhardt

National Advocate · Tuesday 12 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY. Monday: One of the enemies called to a fire at Leichhardt today crashed into a telegraph pole throwing the crew into a heap and injuring six…

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Injured In Fall

Lithgow Mercury · Friday 15 March 1946 · page 2

When Mr. C. Yates, who is staying at the hostel, fell over while at work in the Power House to-day he bruised his arm. The ambulance…

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Boy Injured

National Advocate · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: While watching a forseoplane machine at a carnival at Randwick last night. Charles Foley (16). of Randwick, was hit on the side of the…

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Former Lithgow Resident Fatally Injured

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

Particularly sad circumstances surround the death on Saturday of Mr. Jack Mitchell (22) of 81 King-street, Canterbury, and formerly of…

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Lorry Accident

National Advocate · Monday 18 March 1946 · page 2

John McCusker (23). of 46 Keppel Street. suffered a probable fracture of the left collarbone and probable fracture of the ribs on Saturday when a…

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