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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1926

2,012 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 101

Aberdeen Railway Accident Death of Mrs. Thorley

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 11 May 1926 · page 3

At Muswellbrook Court House on Thursday, Mr. A. W. Swaddling, District Coroner, held an inquiry in; to the death of Emily Alice Thorley,…

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Shocking Accident Shaft Penerates Boy's Abdomen. (By Telegraph.) Rockhampton

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 May 1926 · page 2

Neil Abbott, aged 14, was riding a bicycle at a fast pace, when he was thrown on the shaft of an approaching sulky. The shaft penetrated his…

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Motor Bike, Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1926 · page 4

A serious accident occurred on the boundary of Denman near the Denman Convent when William Castledine, riding a motor bike, in…

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Accident at Miller's Forest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 May 1926 · page 4

A collision occurred at O'Donohue's corner on the Miller's Forest and Scotch Creek roads between a motor car driven by a man from Stocktor…

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Collision at Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 May 1926 · page 4

When turning the horses attached to a two-horse lorry belonging to Mr. W. Hindmarch yesterday afternoon in First-street. Weston, the driver, a…

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Overturned Car Found Accident on Muswellbrookroad

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 May 1926 · page 3

A car was found overturned on the Main Northern-road about three, miles on the Singleton side of Muswollbrook on Tuesday morning, and for a while…

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Head-on Collision. Condition of Injured. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 5

The condition of patrick parkinson and Dorls Kerswell, two of the victims of the head-on collision between a motor car and a tram in…

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Motor Collision

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

Several people had narrow escapes when two cars crashed into each other and overturned at the intersection of Carthgate and White Streets, Tam…

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Recent Motor Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

There was a large attendance at the funeral of the late George McDonald, of Maitland, who was killed in the recent motor fatality on the…

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Footballer Seriously Injured

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 3

While playing with Murrurundi "A" grade team in their math against Scone in the Upper Hunter competition on Saturday last, Arthur Brook…

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Railway Employee Injured

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

Mr. G. Freund, an examiner at the local railway, while effecting repairs to a carriage on Sunday night, slipped and sustained painful injuries. We…

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Aberdeen Railway Crossing Fatality. Coroners Scathing Remarks

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 2

The District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Swaddling) held an inquiry at Mus wellbrook last week, touching on the death of Mrs. E. A, Thorley, the…

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Disastrous Gale. Damage in New Zealand. Man Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 3

A heavy northerly gale did severe damage in Wellington (N.Z.). The steel [?] carrying the aerial at the wireless station on Tinakori Hill…

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Head On. Tram and Car Smash. Five Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 6

When a motor car and a tram crashed together practically head-on at the corner of Oxford and William streets, Paddington, last night, five…

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Fatal Motor Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 3

When returing from attending, the funeral of Mr. Alex MeKenzie, of Stroud, on Sunday Mr. George McDonald, a resident of Maitland, and one of the firm of…

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Overturned Car Found. Accident on Muswellbrood Road

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 May 1926 · page 8

A car was found overturned on the Main Northern Road about three miles on the Singleton side of Muswellbrook on Tuesday morning, and…

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Drowning Fatality Capsize of Canoe

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1926 · page 14

Norman Frederick, Hendy, aged 22, of Crimea-street, Caulfield (Vic.) while canoeing in the Yarra, was drowned near the Burnley ferry. The…

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Cars in Collision Cessnock Residents Injured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1926 · page 14

Two cars met in collision at the turn-off on the Warner's Bay-road, on Sunday afternoon, and the occupants of one car were injured. Mr…

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Fatal Collision. Two Men Killed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1926 · page 16

A motor car, driven by Thomas Alderson, of Sorrento (Vic), near Mordialloe Bridge, on the beach road, with lady passengers, was rounding…

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Miner Injured at Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 May 1926 · page 4

William Brandt, aged 32. a miner residing in High-street, West Maitland, was returning home from Hebburn Day-office yesterday afternoon,…

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