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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Street Collision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 10 July 1946 · page 5

While riding a motor cycle along Windsor-street, Richmond on Friday last, Donald Hughes, an airman attached to the R.A.A.F. Station, was…

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Hurt in Collision Upper Colo Resident Others Escape Injury

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 17 July 1946 · page 2

WHEN a lorry, loaded with fruit, was involved in a collision with a car on the Windsor-Singleton road on July 10, a…

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No Suspicious Cricumstances Windsor River Fatality Coroner Holds Inquiry

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 9

NO suspicious circumstances were disclosed in an inquiry held by the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston) at…

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Motor Cyclist Badly Injured Straying Stock Again

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 10

THE steadily-increasing list of accidents in and around this district due to straying stock had an addition on Wednesday…

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Accidental Death Young Man's End at Laughtondale From Gunshot Wound

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 3

AFTER an inquiry at Windsor on July 24 into the death of Allan Bernard Paul James (19) from a gunshot wound at…

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Crushed By Train Coroner Holds Inquiry Accidental Death

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 14 August 1946 · page 2

ON hearing evidence as to how Francis Michael Keating was stuck by a train at Riverstone on May 8, the Hawkesbury District…

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Accidental Death Coroner Records Finding Pitt Town Road Fatality

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 28 August 1946 · page 4

A FINDING of .accidental death was recorded by the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston) regarding the…

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Injured In Fall From Horse

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 September 1946 · page 7

While riding with a companion at Gunderman on September 4, Bruce Coath (21) was injured when his horse stumbled and threw him, then…

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Accidents

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 September 1946 · page 4

On Thursday last, while ,a student I at the H.A. College, Mr. P. Walz (20), was mixing lime for a tennis court, some splashed into his eye…

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Marathon Case Part-Heard In Three Courts Result of Motor Collision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 25 September 1946 · page 2

POLICE action following a motor collision at Vineyard on June 23 resulted in a case being part-heard at three Windsor…

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Accidents

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 October 1946 · page 5

At about 2 p.m. on Sunday, when a motor cycle he was riding towards Windsor was involved in a collision with a car travelling in the opposite…

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Accidents

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 23 October 1946 · page 1

On Thursday afternoon Mr. D. B. Horsfield (32), of Bilpin, was riding on the rear of a motor lorry on Bilpin-road when he apparently lost…

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Accidents

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 30 October 1946 · page 6

While Mr. George Thompson (32), of St. Albans, was competing in an event at that centre on Saturday, his horse fell and rolled on him. He…

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Accidental Death of Richmond Schoolboy Coroner Holds Inquest

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 5

A FINDING of accidental death was recorded by the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr. H. S. Johnston) after holding an…

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Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 6 November 1946 · page 6

At the Glossodia School on Thursday morning Peggy Bartley (10), of 'Glossodia, slipped and fractured her left arm, this being her second such…

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Another River Fatality Young Girl Drowned While Bathing in Colo

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 13 November 1946 · page 1

ANOTHER of the long series of drowning fatalities in this district occurred on Sunday, when a schoolgirl visiting with…

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Accidents

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 20 November 1946 · page 6

Falling from a train at Windsor on Thursday afternoon last, at about 6.25 p.m., Mr. Albert Marlon (64), of Richmond, sustained severe…

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Accident at Sawmill

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 27 November 1946 · page 9

While working at a sawmill at Richmond on Monday, Mr. J. Lappin (27), of Londonderry, had the misfortune to sustain serious injury…

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Driver Fined Failed To Report Accident

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 11 December 1946 · page 8

"YOU'VE had a few traffic offences and you should have known enough to report this accident," was the comment made…

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Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 18 December 1946 · page 10

While working on the railway permanent way last week, Mr. Bruce Brooks (39), of Gosford, collapsed near the Kurrajong railway station…

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