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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

23 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 2

10 Injured When Jeep Overturned

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

TEN persons were injured last night when a jeep overturned near Windsor. All were passengers in the jeep…

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One Dead 9 INJURED Jeep Overturns

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 3 January 1945 · page 2

WHEN an air force jeep overturned on the Pitt Townroad about a mile from Magrath's Hill on Tuesday…

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Accidents That Illustrate Traffic Rules

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 7 February 1945 · page 4

FATAL accidents in the last three months in New South Wales illustrate all of the instructions that could be…

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Cycle Riders in Road Accidents

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 28 February 1945 · page 5

YOUNG pedal cyclists are again pushing their way into the road casualty lists in ways that are easily…

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53 People Slightly Hurt in Train Smash Head-On Collision At Clarendon Station

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 2

FIFTY-THREE people, including 18 civilians and 35 R.A.A.F. personnel were slightly injured when a Sydney bound train crashed head- on into a stationary train at Clarendon station at 7 a.m. on Monday…

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Accidentally Killed Young Wilberforce Airman

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 7 March 1945 · page 6

District friends were saddened to learn of the accidental death in Canada of a popular young Wilberforce member of the R.A.A.F. in L.A.C…

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1 DEAD: 1 INJURED Hit By Cars Near Mcgrath's Hill

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 14 March 1945 · page 2

Stated to have been struck by motor cars, one man was fatally injured and another is in Hawkesbury Hospital as a…

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Increase in Road Accidents

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 4 April 1945 · page 3

THERE were 1241 road accidents in country towns and rural areas in which 131 persons were killed and 1171…

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Another Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1945 · page 6

Another unfortunate fatality— the second in a week in the district—occurred on the Blacktown-road on Tuesday afternoon…

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Hospital Secretary Injured

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1945 · page 2

WHEN he came into contact with a live wire while making an electrical' repair at the hospital on Friday, the…

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Rider Killed Cycle: Truck Collision

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 25 April 1945 · page 2

NORMAN HINKLER GORDON, 17, of Cattai, was killed instantly on Saturday after, noon when a bicycle he was…

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Youth Killed Magrath's Hill Collision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 April 1945 · page 1

THE ill-starred Magrath's Hill area saw another fatality early on Saturday afternoon, when a young Cattai resident lost his…

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Child Drowned. Mother's Sad Discovery Marsden Park Tragedy

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 May 1945 · page 1

TO find her youngest child— a toddler less than two years old-floating in a nearby creek was the tragic experience of a…

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Six Are Injured in Road Acciednts

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 9 May 1945 · page 2

THREE women were Injured, two of them seriously, in a collision between a motor lorry and a sulky in front of…

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16 Injured When Windsor Rodeo Stand Crashed

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 23 May 1945 · page 2

SIXTEEN people were Injured when a a tiered hardwood stand of 10 rows of seats, on which 300 men, women and children were, sitting and standing collapsed in a paddock off Ross St., Windsor, during a rodeo show on Saturday night…

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Unrehearsed Thrill Spectators Injured At Rodeo Show Seating Collapses

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 May 1945 · page 2

A NUMBER of people were injured in n spectacular mishap at a rodeo show, in Windsor on Saturday evening, when a…

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Plan To Reduce Accident Risk At McGrath's Hill

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 13 June 1945 · page 1

"McGrath's Hill has a bad record for accidents, some of which have been fatal," said Ald Gillespie when Windsor…

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Sequel To Accident Two Men Fined for Traffic Offences

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 4 July 1945 · page 3

A COLLISION between a car and a motor cycle on the Pitt Town-road on March 31 resulted in the two young men…

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Fell Under Train Freeman's Reach Resident Killed Windsor Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 July 1945 · page 1

DISTRICT friends were deeply shocked to hear of the sad end of a well-known Freeman's Reach resident, who was killed…

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Accident Sequel Laughtondale Driver Fined at Windsor Court

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 September 1945 · page 8

RESULTING from a collision which occurred on Cattai-road, Cattai, on the evening of June 7, a Laughton dale driver was…

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