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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

1,382 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 70

Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 4

Mr. S. Watt attempted to remove a root that was caught in the blade of a rotary hoe white at work on the pine plantation last week, and had his…

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Colliery Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 5

Alfred Davis, 50, of Mayfield-street, Cessnock, a wheeler employed at Aberdare colliery, received lacerations to the hip…

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Echo of Motor Accident £250 Damages Awarded

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 20 May 1938 · page 5

Echoes of a motor accident which occurred near Weston on the morning of January 25 were heard at the Maitland District…

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Senator's Son Injured Wagga

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 5

Senator Charles Hardy'a youngest son, Peter, 12 years, sustained serious injuries to-day when hits bicycle was struck by a motor car travelling in…

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Speed Limit and Road Accident Problem Analysis of Accidents in Great Britain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 4

Safety First propagandists and others associated with the efforts to grapple with the road accident problem are provided with food for thought in the announcement that, since the 30 m.p.h. speed limit in prescribed areas was brought into…

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Six Men Injured in Car Crash Somersaulted Seven Times Gosford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 May 1938 · page 2

When a car skidded and somersaulted seven times six men were Injured, one critically, about a mile south of Ourimbah last…

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Wild Jumps Car Falls Thirty Feet Maitland Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 May 1938 · page 1

Leaping wildly, two young men escaped serious injury while their car crashed through a fence and plunged 30 feet down a steep embankment, at…

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Car Accidents Young Man Fatally Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 2

As a result of severe injuries sustained in a motor accident near Ourimbah early on Sunday night, Walter E. (Wally) Bramble, aged 20,…

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Lorry Capsizes Driver Severely Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 6

When a lorry he was driving from Ceasnock towards Maitland skidded on the side of the road and overturned about two miles from West…

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Lorry in Creek Load of Cream Lost Eight Injured Lismore

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 6

Eight persons wore injured and 250 gallons of cream were lost when a cream lorry left the road and plunged down a 30ft, embankment at Laverty's…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 3

Richard Bridge, 57, of Congewai, had a shoulder dislocated when he was thrown from a horse on Saturday…

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Car Skidded Smash at Waverley Constables Injured Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 1

When a motor car skidded on the wet roadway at Waverley and crashed into a post this morning, Cynthia Sinclair, 26, of King's Cross, and…

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An Accident Death of Jockey Inquest Verdict

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 May 1938 · page 4

After holding an inquest into the death of Clarence Alfred Badger, 27, jockey, who was killed at a race meeting at Geelong, the Deputy Coroner…

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Fatal Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 15

The body of Richard Sidney Hall, of South Creek Road, Dee Why, who was killed when his car collided with a tram contained 333 per cent of…

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Girl's Death Injured in Car Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 5

Miss Violet Deacon, 22, of Park-st., Lorn, West Maitland, who was injured when a car in which she was a passenger overturned near Hexham on…

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Back Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 5

George Asslmus, 39. of Kdgeworth-street, Cessnock, a fettier, employed by South Maitland Railways, Ltd., suffered an injury to his back when…

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Injured Warder Dies San Francisco, May 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 8

The warder who was injured when three convicts, who were bank robbers, attempted to escape from Alcatraz Prison yesterday, has died. One…

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Don Explains Action in Surrey Match Injured Players London, May 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1

"It is regrettable that spectators at the Oval disapproved my action, but I feel sure it would have been tolerated had they know the true…

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Fettler Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 3

George Asimus, 39, of Edge-worth-street, Cessnock, a fettler, employed by South Maitland Railways Ltd., suffered an…

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Three Injured in Skid Two Constables and Young Woman

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 8

Two police constables who were off duty, T. W. Kelly and Stanley Finlayson, besides a young woman, Miss Cynthia Sinclair, were injured on…

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