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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1925

2,051 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 103

Crash During Melbourne Meet March One Hundred Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 9

Ambulances brought more than 100 people, more or less injured, to Melbourne Hospital on Friday afternoon for treatment, consequent…

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Accident Near Paterson

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 August 1925 · page 4

When about a mile and a half on the Maitland side of Paterson last evening a motor car driven by Mr. H. Guy who had with him five…

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Cars in Collision. Four Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 14

A motor car collision occurred at Moorabbin last night. One car was overturned, and it was sometime before the occupants…

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Motor Fatality. Oxford Street Accident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 11

George Burton (53) of Tennyson road Mortlake was knocked down and killed by a motor car in Oxford street Woollahra Sydney on…

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Fatal Collision. Death of Mrs. Sadler

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 7

As the results of injuries received in a collision on Point Nepean-road, on Sunday between two motor cars. Mrs. Margaret Sadler, aged 70 years, of…

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Boy Injured. Rescuer's Hand Cashed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 9

Ernest Edwards, an apprentice fitter, was working among the machinery at Edwards' factory when one arm became caught in the cog…

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Stable Hand Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 13

A stable hand named [?] was riding the black gelding Raise Oban on the cinders track at Kensington this morning, when the stirrup…

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Motor Cyclist Killed Collision with Motor Van

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 14

Returning to Melbourne from Kilmore on Saturday after a mishap, which prevented him from taking any further part in the Victoria Motor…

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Car Through Fence. Two Persons Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 14

Two people were seriously injured when a motor car crashed through a fence bordering Point Nepean road near Sorrento on Saturday afternoon…

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Struck by Car. Seriously Injured at Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 2

Mr. G. T. Edwards, the Deputy Coroner at Newcastle, was seriously injured last evening by being knocked down by a motor car in…

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Motor Cycle Race Fatality. English Rider Killed. London, Aug. 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 12

During the Belgian Grand Prix motor cycle race, the British rider, Hollowell, died from injuries received in afall owing to his machine…

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French Disaster. Bathing Fatalities. Eighteen. Boys Drowned. Paris, Aug. 9

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 13

A bathing disaster of the most shocking consequences has occurred near Boulogne, where thirty-five small children whose parents worked at the…

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Farmers Injured. Run Down by Tram. Unlucky Delegate

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 5

Two delegates to the conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association were run down and injured by a tram at Rawson-place, Sydney, on…

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Premature Explosion Two Men Injured at Steel Works

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 9

Two employees were injured as a result of the premature explosion of a charge placed in some slag at the Steel Works on 7th inst…

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Sulky Smashed. Man and Wife Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 5

Owing to a collision between a motor and a sulky in Parramatta Road. Camperdown, last night, Adrian Horniman and his wife, of Ross-street…

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Head Injured. Affray at Islington. Four Men and Two Women Involved

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 13

Four men and two women were involved in an affray at the intersection of Devon and Chinchen Streets Islington on Saturday night…

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Collapse of Arch Two Workmen Injured At Sydney Post Office. SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 5

Buried under about ten tons of concrete, when an archway, which he was demolishing, collapsed in the interior of the G.P.O. to-day, Harry…

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Accident During Dance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. M. J. Smith, residing at Onus-street, Homeville, sustained a lacerated wound to the left forearm as the result of putting his arm through a…

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Accident on Paterson Road

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 4

The motor car which was damaged near Paterson on Thursday night, through a horse colliding with it, was driven by Mr. Hunter Guy, of West…

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Accidents

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 August 1925 · page 6

Two members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. H. Edwards, of Dunolly, met with accidents on 5th inst., noon, Elva, aged two years and nine…

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