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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 77

Three Injured Car Capsizes TAREE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 3

When W. Mortley (Windsor), and Cyril Byrnes and wife of Parramatta, were journeying to Nambucca to spend a holiday with friends, their…

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Motor Cycle Out of Control Critically Injured Youth Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 2

Alexander Clout, aged 18, was criticlly injured, and Stanley Nield, aged 22, received concussion, when their motor cycle get out of control at…

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Accident Toll Sandgate Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 September 1935 · page 6

Tarro Shire Council to-day decided to bring before the notice of the Main Roads Board, the number of accidents that occurred at Sandgate Hill, near…

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Off the Line N.Z. Train Accident Children Escape Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 8

A remarkable escape, was experienced by about 70 passengers, including 60 school, children, when a train was derailed on the…

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GLOUCESTER Motor Car Accident Over Cutting Gloucester

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 8

A bad motor accident occurred at Stratford on Saturday night, when a car, driven by Mr. Herbert Jackson, of Bellbird, capsized over…

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Fatal Motor Accident

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 26 September 1935 · page 4

A coroner's enquiry, was held on Friday morning into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs. Alice Kulmar, of Darlinghurst, Sydney, which…

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Injured in Lorry Smash Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 4

Cecil Harvey, 44, of Hill-street, Lambton, employed by the Wholesale Co-operative Society, was driving a motor lorry at Hamilton when driving a…

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Child Killed Shocking Accident Gate Post Falls

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 7

In shocking circumstances, a child was killed in, East Maitland shortly after 8 o'clock this morning, when a stone gale post…

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Safety League To Reduce Accidents New Body Formed Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 4

At a public mooting, held in the Sydney Town Hall, the Road Safety League was formed. It was stated that the chief objects of the…

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Motor Accident At Stratford

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 September 1935 · page 4

At about 7 p.m. on Saturday last, a nasty motor accident occurred at the bridge over the Avon River at Stratford, when a car driven by Mr…

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Wheeler Injured Weston

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 10

Mr. G. Wilson, of Weston, a [?] employed at Hebburn No. 1 Colliery suffered injuries to the head and hands as the result of being jammed…

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Street Collision Traffic Held Up SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 2

The tram traffic was held up for more than half an hour and passengers on one tram had remarkable escapes, when a motor lorry loaded with…

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Level Crossing Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 September 1935 · page 10

According to the British Ministry of Transport's annual report on railway accidents in 1934, one person was either killed or injured per 150…

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Head Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 5

While working in a timber mill at Querrobolong this morning, Clyde O'Hearn, 46, a benchman, was struck by a piece of timber and received…

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Motor Collision Claim £96 Damages Awarded

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 2

In the District-Court at Mainland oil Thursday last, before His Honour Judge Neild, John Johnson, of Stanhope, farmer, brought an action against…

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Struck by Ball Child Severely Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 3

While playing at the old rifle, range at Randwick, Alfred Nickel, 6, of Elizabeth-street, City, was struck on the head with a golf ball and seriously…

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Injured Man Preserves Silence Badly Hurt Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 8

A man who gave his name as James Ellis, 32, declined, to tell detectives how he had received severe gashes to the throat and hand…

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Injured While Alighting From Tram £500 Damages for Woman

Singleton Argus · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 1

Claiming £2000 as compensation and damages from the Comminissioner for Road Transport for injuries received by her while alighting from a tram in…

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Car Accident Second Woman Dies SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 1

Knocked down by a motor car at South Kensington on September 14, Mrs. Elsie Maude Alexander, of Pagewood, died in hospital to-day from…

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Two Killed Road Accidents Over Embankment Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 30 September 1935 · page 2

Two people were killed in motor accidents in the State at the weekend, one of the fatal accidents being in Sydney and the other on the…

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