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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1923

1,288 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 65

Train Smash. Two Eprsons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 14

The 4.30 p.m. train from Gembrook (Victoria), running on the narrow-gauge railway, when entering Ferntree Gully station at between four…

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Driver Killed. Two Others Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 16

Swerving to avoid a cart without lights on the Brown's River road, Hobart, a motor car ran over the bank, crashed through a fence, and into a…

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Cars in Collision. on Wiseman's Ferry Road

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 3

A collision between two motor cars occurred on Tuesday afternoon, about ten miles from Wollombi, on the Wiseman's Ferry-road. One of…

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Japanese in Paris. Motor Car Fatality. Paris, April 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 2

The French paper "Le Matin," in an account of the accident, says that Prince Kitashirakawa was driving at the rate of 120 kilometres an hour…

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Car Fatality. Charge of Negligent Driving. Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 3

Benjamin Gegetta, of Cessnock, was charged at the Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day with negilgently driving car on January 13, the day of the…

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A Fatal Collision Alleged Manslaughter Charge. (By Telegraph.) Sydney, Friday

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 6

John Griffith Peake, aged 26, described as a research chemist, was placed on trial at the Central Criminal Court to-day, charged with the alleged…

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Motor Smashes. Double Somersault. Accident in Victoria

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 7

A motor car conveying eight holiday-makers from Dromann to Melbourne turned a double somersault while rounding a dangerous turn on…

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A Lucky Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 14

Many of the most important discoveries in science and engineering have been made almost by accident. There is now in general use a…

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Motor Accident. Japanese Prince Killed. London, March 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 3

Reuter's Bernay correspondent reports that a motor car on the Paris-Cherbourg-road containing Prince Kitashirakawa, brother-in-law of the…

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Motor Accidents. Car Somersaults at Ermington. Woman Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 16

While proceeding down a hill near Dundas on Thursday afternoon, a motor car skidded and turned a complete somersault, with the result that six…

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Accident Near Wagga

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 16

A serious motor accident occurred at late hour on Thursday night at a dangerous spot on the road a few miles from Wagga. A well-known…

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Motor Cycle Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 April 1923 · page 2

While returning to Maitland in a motor cycle and side car from Dungog on Friday evening last, Mr. A. Jones, of Lorn, and Mr. C. Morris,…

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Motorist Fined. Accident on Northern Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 April 1923 · page 2

At the West Maitland Police Court to-day, William Horton was charged with having on March 4, ridden a motor cycle in a furious manner…

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Dinghy Capsizes. Two Persons Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 6

As the result of a dinghy capsizing in Manukan Harbour on Sunday afternoon, Henry Bowater and Frank Barues were drowned…

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Accident in High-street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 4

An accident of a peculiar nature happened in High-street, West Maitland, at 10.45 last night. A buggy which had just been driven out of…

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Sensational Accident

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 April 1923 · page 3

A sensational motor-cycle accident occurred on the Liverpool-road, Bankstown, on Friday. Jenkyn Denham was driving the cycle and he had as…

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Motor Fatality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 April 1923 · page 6

At an inquest concerning the death of Joseph Goodger, which occurred in the Adelaide Hospital on April 7 from injuries sustained in a…

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Shocking Fatality. Max Falls Into Hot Slag

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 April 1923 · page 3

Quinto Turn, an Italian employed at the Steal Works as third helper at one of the open hearth furnaces, met with a dreadful death on Tuesday…

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Fall From Train Baby Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 April 1923 · page 3

While Albert Sweatman, aged 3 years, was travelling with his mother by train from Ararat to Ballarat on Saturday he fell out of the carriage…

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Severely Scalded. Serious Accident at Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 April 1923 · page 5

Mr. George Bendelch, aged 54, or Kirkion, Tower Belford, and an employee of Messrs Lindeman, Ltd., met with a serious sealding accident a…

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