Ambulance In Collision
WHO said it's safe to drive in an ambulance Well, in Broken Hill it usually is, but the Victoria Ambulance's good record was spoilt…
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Accidents, 1940
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Men Injured
Scalding of the right side of his face, shoulder and back was suffered by an Hendry (20), moulder, of 198 Pell Street, when a billycan of…
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THE discovery of Olemen Frongerud aged 10, a few miles from Inverloch this morning together with the wreckage of a launch, is the only…
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The body of a West Broken Hill bus was slightly damaged last night when it came into collision with the rear of a lorry in Argent Street. The…
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Chris Gibbons, mullocker, of 542 Lane Street, suffered a probable fractuied finger when he jammed it between a bucket and dray at the North…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday— The condition of the injured boxer. Billy Fundess. who collapsed in the last round of his fight with Dave Lefton at the…
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A six year old girl with a dislocated thigh has peached Darwin for hospital treatment after a painful journey of 227 miles by…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—When the rider of a motor cycle, Reginald White, 22, and his pillion passenger. Bessie Jones, 14, were thrown to the…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—Six persons died in New South Wales at the weekend from injuries received in road accidents, and many others were…
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BRISBANE, Monday.—When a motor truck collided with a train at Gooburrum, near Bundaberg, three were killed. The victims were John…
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A MOTORIST who failed to give way to vehicle on his right and was concerned in a colllsion at the corner of Bromide and Williams Streets on October 10, was fined £with 8/- costs by Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., in the Police Court today when he was…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday—When two cars collided on the Hume Highway at Picton last night Mrs. Myrtle Thefs, of Peakhurst,was killed and…
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The Chief Traffic Inspector of the City Council (Mr. S. J. J. Davey) was concerned in a collision with a cyclist in Blende Steet between Garnett and…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— The body of a man aged about 60, only partly clad, was found floating face down wards in Sisters' Bay, Drummoyne,…
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nFalling over pipes while engaged on sewerage works at the corner of Iodide and Blende Streets today. Charles Pearce, of 246 Brazil Street,…
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SYDNEY. Thursday.—The body of a man aged about, 60. only partly cladwas found floating face downwards in Sisters' Bay, Drummoyne,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The worst street brawl for many years occurred last night when more than 50 soldiers and 250 civilians fought in Campbell…
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With his head swathed in bandages, Edmund Joseph John O'Grady,. hairdresser, of Jetty Road, Glenelg, lay in bed at the Royal Adelaide…
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Antonio Galliera, of 407 Cobalt Street, a oniner at the North mine, suffered lacerations to a shin whila at work today. He was taken to the…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday.—Quarter-master-Sergeant George Ayre Arthur of the 21st Light Horse, was killed when a motor truck crashed into a…
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