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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

2,012 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 101

One Killed. Three Seriously Injured. Crossing Smash

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 9

When a motor car was crossing the railway line between Donald and Cope (Vic), the engine stalled and the car refused to move…

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Fell Forty Feet. Car Over Embankment. Driver Fatally Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 14

Out of control, a motor car raced backwards down, a steep hill at the Devil's Elbow, north of Hornsby, last evening, and dashed 40ft. over an…

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Jockey Injured. Gun of the West Creates Sensation. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 16

Greendale (E. Dawson), and Gun of the West (G. Holford), were galloping at Victoria Park to-day, when Gun of the West suddenly ran wide and…

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Fall of Coal. Accident at Stanford-merthyr. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 5

[?] W. Earn relates how an accident occurred to Donald Price, 26, married, a wheeler at Stanford. A signal came from No. 2 bord…

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Motor Cycle Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 4

Robert M'Elroy, aged 25 years, a clerk employed at the steel works, and living at West Maitland, was riding on the back of a motor cycle…

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Shocking Accident. Wharf Labourer's Luck Out. Rockhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 4

While a wharf labourer named Meardi[?] was assisting to unload a case of oil from the motor ship Hinnoy, a sling of cargo struck him…

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Remarkable Escape. New Zealand Motor Accidents

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 16

Five residents of Birchwood (N.Z.) had a wonderful escape from death when a car in which they were proceeding to Dunedin crashed into a…

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To Hospital by 'Plane Victim of Peculiar Accident

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 February 1926 · page 6

A message from Perth states that to save the life of a man injured in an amazing accident outback, an aeriplane was utilised to convey the victim…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 4

Mr. J. A. Conlin, of East Greta Junction, was riding a motor cycle from Capp-street, Telarah, into Government-road, on Sunday morning…

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Car Driver Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 4

Norman Clyde Graham, a resident of Pitt-street, Singleton, was admitted to the Maitland Hospital this afternoon suffering fro a fractured…

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Motor Fatality. Youth Dies From Fractured Skull

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 3

Hugh Gemmell, 16, died in hospital on Sunday morning as the result of injuries received in a head-on collision between a motor cycle…

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Skull Fractured. Boy Fatally Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 3

As the result of injuries received through being struck by a motor car on Saturday, Bert Dovell, 15, of Canterbury, died in hospital…

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Three Injured. Motor and Sulky Collide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 3

Three persons were injured when a motor car and sulky collided in Gordon on Sunday night. The sulky, which was driven by…

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Two Drowned. Storm in Auckland Harbour. Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 March 1926 · page 5

Two men were drowned in Auckland Harbour. As a result of stormy weather, a number of yachis capsized. Two…

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Child Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 4

Ronald' Guy, a, child, residing with, his parents at Government road, Telarah, sustained a lacerated wound about an inch long over the left eye…

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Live Electric Wire. Chilrdbn Severely Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 5

Two little children, one 5½ years and the other 16 months old, sons of Mr. and Mrs. George Stevens, residing in Main-street, Cessnock, had a…

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Killed Instantly. Narromine Motor Fatality. Car Somersaults Twice. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 5

A message from Narromine says that John Ferguson Dunfield, was killed as a result of a motor accident yesterday…

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Fall of Coal. Miner Injured at Stanford. Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 3

An accident similar to that which befell Don. Price in No. 3 bord, Canberra fig, Stanford Merthyr Colliery, at the week-end, occurred in the same…

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Local and General Motor Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 4

Norman Clyde Graham[?] a resident of Singleton, who was seriously injured in a motor accident near Greta yesterday afternoon, and admitted…

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Don Price's Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1926 · page 4

The account of the accident in Stanford Merthyr Colliery, Canberra lig No. 3 bord to Don Price, a wheeler, was telegraphed to the…

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