Holiday Accidents
Despite an extraordinarily large number of motor vehicles on the roads, including a very large amount of through traffic, Coffs Harbour and…
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Accidents, 1939
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Taxi Drivers Recklessness Alleged Warning By Minister 2127 Accidents in 1938 SYDNEY
The Minister for Transport, Col. Bruxner, with the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. Neale, to-day called into conference representatives…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision at Ballina
Minor damage was caused to a motor car and a truck in a collision in River street, Ballina, on Thursday morning. The car, which was owned…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Nurse Injured Fell From Seventh Floor. Sydney
Joan [?] nurse at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital [?] from the seventh floor of the nurse home at the institution this afternoon…
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Six persons were injured, one fatally when a car, after leaving the Anglesea road, near Bellbrae, this afternoon, crashed through a fence, struck a tree,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Boy Drowned Slipped Down Steep Bank. Sydney
Bay Osland, aged 6, of Edward street Glebe' Newcastle, was drowned in a lagoon at Wattamulla (National Park), to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Four Killed Air Liner Crashes Thirteen Others Injured. Paris
Four were killed and 13 injured when a Swiss air liner from Zurich to Paris crashed, near Senlis, 25 miles north of Paris…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Killed by Car Woman Crossing Street Two Others Injured. Sydney
Mrs. Ada Hicks, of Croydon, was killed instantly near her home to-night, and her husband, James Hicks. (73), suffered a fractured skull. Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Car Smash One Dead, Another Injured. Melbourne
Following a car smash at Heidelberg an Saturday, George Gateshouse (39) of Upper Hawthorn, a committeeman of Rosanna Golf Club, died in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Drowned in Waterhole Death Of Share-Farmer Tragedy at Carr's Creek
Edward Patrick Clarence Moloney, a share-farmer on the property of Mr. Tom James, at Carr's Creek, met his death in sudden tragic…
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The family of Mr. George Scambury, well-known in the Bellinger and Cofl's Harbour districts and now in business at Bowraville, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burning Accident Methylated Spirits Ignite. Maclean
While an employee of Mr. Thomas Coplin, of Broome's Head, was attending to a primus in the kitchen on Saturday night, a brittle of methylated…
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Hit by a winch on the N.C.S.N Co.'s wharf yesterday morning, Kenneth George Goodwin, wharf laborer, 28, married, of 108 Victoria street,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crashed Through Railings Car Accident Near Armidale
When the car he was divine crashed through the railings of Martin's Gully bridge, on the Uralla road, about two miles from Armidale, early on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidental Death Fine Flower Tragedy. Rider Thrown Violently From Horse
"I find that William James Manewell was accidentally killed on the Coaldale-Baryulgil road, 36 miles from Grafton, on January 1, 1939,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glen Innes Road Accident
Whilst travelling to Grafton on the Glen Innes road on Sunday. Messrs. C. Spencer and Witton, had a narrow escape from severe injury when their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Child Drowned Bathing with Sisters. Sydney
While swimming in private baths at Pymble yesterday Dermot O'Brien. aged three years, was drowned. He was bathing with his two sisters and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plane Wrecked Pilot Injured Moth Out of Control. Melbourne
John Sherwin (27), of Mornington was seriously injured this morning when a Moth plane he piloted crashed at Mornington…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclist Killed in Street Accident. Sydney
When the wheel of a bicycle caught a tramline at Brighton-le-Sands to-night Ernest Nicol, (20), of Hurlstone Park was thrown against a passing taxi cab…
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Keith Pollock, of the Commercial Bank, Bathurst, and his sister, Miss Nancy Pollock, of Murwillumbah were injured 7 when their car overturned…
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