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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

15 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers

Air Crash Inquiry Accidental Death Corcner Gives Verdict Unable to State Cause Relatives Question Witnesses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 1

A VERDICT of accidental death through the crashing of the plane of which they were the crew, but as to what caused the accident the evidence…

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Accidental Death Coroner's Inquiry at Windsor Richmond Car Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 14

AFTER hearing evidence with regard to the unfortunate death, on December 3 last, of a visitor to the district, William Alfred Berwick, when the car he was…

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Riverstone Tragedy Youth Drowned in Creek Popular North Richmond Lad

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 4

ANOTHER of those unfortunate drowning fatalities which so often take from the community valuable young lives during the summer months occurred at Riverstone…

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Accidental Death Riverstone Drowning Fatality Coroner Expresses Sympathy

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 14

"HE was a very respectable lad, and a type which this country can ill afford to lose," remarked the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston, J.P.) at the…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Little Accident"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 13

Hugh Herbert was literally "up a tree when he first hit upon the "woo-woo" phrase which to-day is as well known as his own name. Parked in the tree while doing…

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Windsor Council No Compensation Claims Allowed Liability for Accident Denied Tar Surfacing Petition

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 5

A DEFINITE intimation from the Department of Works and Local Government that compensation claims submitted in respect of construction of…

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Crossing Collision Has Traffic Charge Sequel at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 May 1940 · page 3

FOLLOWING a miraculous escape from serious injury when a lorry he was driving was struck by a train at a level crossing on the Terrace-road, North Richmond…

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Accident Sequel Motor Driver Before Court to Pay £25 Compensation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 10

AS a sequel to an accident which occurred on the Wilberforce-road on April 22 last, when a car was stated to have struck a sulky from behind, damaging the vehicle…

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Motoring Tragedy Colo Resident Killed Family Severely Injured

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 July 1940 · page 10

RESIDENTS throughout the district were deeply shocked to learn of the tragic experience of a widely popular Upper Colo family on Saturday last when, as the…

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Accident Claims Cross Action by Parties at Richmond Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 12

A RATHER complex proceedings in the Richmond 'Small Debts Court Friday, in which a great deal of local interest was taken, centred around a minor…

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Fatal Accident Car Rolls Down Slope at Kurrajong Heights

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 10

WHEN a car carrying seven people overturned and rolled down a steep slope on the road at Kurrajong Heights on Wednesday evening* of last week, one passenger…

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Trying Ordeal Injured Men in Truck Forty Miles to Telephone

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 2

THE truth of a contention, in a discussion during the recent P.A. Federation conference, that proper telephone facilities on the local section of the new Putty-Singleton…

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Unfortunate Mishap Three Young Women Injured Lorry Collides with Railing

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 1

A MOST regrettable mishap, to the victims of which the general sympathy of those who have heard of the circumstances is extended in their misfortune, took place at…

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Moulos Inquest Adjourned to December 3 Doctor Believes Not Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 November 1940 · page 12

CHIEF feature of the inquest which began in Sydney last week in connection with the death of Victor Moulos, of Manly and formerly of Windsor, who was found lying…

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Fatal Collision Windsor Road Toll Grows Ten People Hurt

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 December 1940 · page 10

THE ill-starred section of Windsor-road at Vineyard was the scene of another bad motor accident on Sunday, when two cars met in a head-on collision which resulted…

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