Week-End Accidents
Two accidents occurred on outback roads at the week-end. Both took place when cars skidded on loose gravel. In one case the car turned…
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Accidents, 1950
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Three Motor Accidents
A two- year- old girl, Karin Willis, of 658 Lane Street, was injured in a collision between two motor cars in Oxide Street on…
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Albury.—A soldier was catapulted over a bridge railing and plunged 25 feet into a creek between Albury and Wodonga by a…
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Melbourne. — William Goodwin 40, of St. Leonard's Road, Ascot Vale, was drowned when a boat from which he was fishing…
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M. Batonich (Hutcherson Brothers) went to his home at 326 Piper Street after being treated by a doctor for an injured back…
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Sydney, February 13.—The City Coroner (Mr. Bond) on Friday returned a finding of accidental death at an inquest into the deaths of speedway riders…
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Sydney, February 13—Railway official raced against time yesterday to stop a goods train at lawson on the Blue Mountains line, after a car…
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Sydney.—Ten people were injured in two separate traffic accidents in Sydney this morning. Two passengers and a conductor…
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About 7.15 o'clock last night Lancelot Matthews (11) of 184 Iodide street suffered abrasions to the face, legs, and arms when knocked over by a bus in…
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For falling to stop after an accident Leslie Greenwood was yesterday fined £7, £2/10/- witness expenses and 10/- cants by Mr, E. J…
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Sydney, February 17. — Apprentice Jockey Sid Bundy, seed 19. was injured in a riding accident for the second time this week early this morning, and is now…
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W. E. Williams (Zinc Corporation), of 121 Hebbard Street, suffered a braised right instep yesterday, and after X-ray at the Hospital was taken home…
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An eye injury took the air ambulance to The Lakes on Saturday for the first time. "The Lakes, a station, is about…
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An employee at the Abattoirs, Victor Everuss, of 97 Jamieson Street, suffered an injured leg this morning. He was taken to the…
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Melbourne.—Cause of the death of Elizabeth Maureen Williams (20), whose body was found on the beach at Middle Park early on December 28, was asphyxiation resulting from strangulation,…
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Sydney, February 19.—A 23 year-old-lifesaving captain was drowned this afternoon at North Cronulla while trying to rescue on 18 year-old-girl who had been swept out to sea by the strong undertow. His beltline was caught in seaweed and…
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The following mine accident cases were treated today:—N. Pound, Silverton road (South mine), strained neck muscles; K…
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Melbourne.—Two men and two women were injured when struck by a long heavy chain dragged by a horse as it bolted through two…
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HOBART.—Three men were killed and 12 others were injures when a lorry carrying 29 men crashed ever an…
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A. G. Jenkins (Zinc) was treated for a foreign body In the right eye. He then went home to 424 Beryl Street. G. B. Nixon (Zinc) strained his leg…
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