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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,539 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 60 of 77

Injured Man Rode Two Miles Great Fortitude Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 3

Considerable fortitude was shown by Alan Baldwin, 35, a married man, whon he was struck by a falling tree branch at Cooroy…

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Head on Tram—Motor Smash Three Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 1

As the result of a head-on collision between a tram and a motor-cycle in Cook's River Road, St. Peters, thia morning, a tram conductor was…

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Four Injured Motor Car Overturns Fell Into Ditch Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 2

When a motor car in which they were travelling towards Newcastle skidded in loose gravel on a sharp bond in the road between Bob's Farm…

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Motor Car Plunges Into Gorge Driver Injured in Bed of Creek

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 3

A motor ear plunged 200 feet into the gorge of Deep Crook, near Tullamarine (Vic.), yesterday. The driver, Allan Atkinson, of Mooneo Ponds, was flung…

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Tram and Motor Cycle Collide Three Injured in Smash Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 2

Throe persons were injured when a motor cycle collided head on with a tram at Cook's River this morning. So great was the impact, that the…

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FELL 200 FEET Car Accident Driver Rescued. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 7 October 1935 · page 5

When a car plunged 200 feet into the gorge of Deep Creek, near Tullamarine, the driver, Allan Atkinson, 26, or Tenuyson-street, Moonee Ponds,…

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Woman Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 8

Mrs. Florence Mitchell, 60, of Awaba-street, Mosman, suffered concussion and a fracture of the right leg with she was knocked down by a car…

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Cyclist Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 3

sylva Smith, 16 of Harris-street, Abermain, was riding a bicycle up Neath Hill, and hanging on to a motor 'bus on Saturday afternoon…

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Cyclist Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 5

Alan Hughes, 21, of Mayfield West, Newcastle, who was riding a motor cycle, was severely injured when a collision with a car occurred at Manly…

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Motor Mishap Six People Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 3

Six coalfield residents were Injured on Sunday morning when a motorcar overturned near Wills' Hill, on the Al[?]andale road. All were taken…

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Struck by Car Sulky Fatality BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 4

A passenger in a milky whom the driver had picked up only a few minute's before, was killed instantly on Saturday when a car came into collision…

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Watchman Missing. Believed to Have Been Drowned. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 2

Frederick Austin, watchman at Jones Bros.' coal yards, is believed to have been drowned while patrolling the waterfront of the yards. When…

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Air Crash. One Killed; Two Injured. Tragedy Near Nowra

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 5

Another tragic air crash occurred yesterday afternoon, when a well-known 'plane, the Eagle Bock, crashed near Novvra. One…

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Accidentally Shot Balranald

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 2

A Renfrey, a farm employee, was admitted to tho Balranald Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the left foot. When Renfrey was about to…

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Painful Accident Kurri Boy's Misfortune Kurri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 7

Jack Lindsley (15), of Aberdare-street, Kurri Kurri, was chopping wood in the bush near his home to-day when the axe slipped, and…

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Motor Accident

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 2

A motor accident which might easily have been attended with fatal results is reported to have happened on Wallarobba hill on Wednesday. As…

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Week-end Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 8 October 1935 · page 3

A five year old boy, George Harris, of Bellbird, was knocked down by a car on Sunday, and suffered InJuries to his head…

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Cyclist Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 7

While riding a bicycle at the Intersection of High and Elgin streets, West Maitland, yesterday afternoon, James Skinner, 14, of Telarah-street, Telarah,…

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Relief Worker Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 2

Harry Fawcett, 29, of Fullerton Cove-road, North Stockton, a relief worker employed by Stockton Council, had his right thigh fractured and…

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Mine Fatality Broken Hill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 October 1935 · page 5

Ernest Bowden, a young married man, died of suffocation when he was burled in skimps. He was a sand pass runner employed at the Zinc…

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