Driving Fatigue Cause of Many Road Accidents
Medical authorities throughout the world now agree that strain and fatigue affect the safe driving of a motorist, and the N.R.M.A. safety…
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Narrow Escape in Street Corner Collision
Although abrasions and slight concussion comprised the extent of injuries sustained by Mr William Quirk, of Temple Court, John-street,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Drowned Slipped Into River GRAFTON
A six-year-old girl slipped into the Clarence River from a cement drain and was drowned after she had seen her younger brother walk out of his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sidecar Fatality Elderly Man the Victim GUYRA
When a motor cycle outfit in which he was riding collided with a motor car at Guyra, on the Tingha Road, John Hollis Ansell, who was in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Accidentally Shot Murwillumbah
When a companion was attempting to remove a bullet from the barrel of a rifle at Upper Commissioner's Creek, the firearm exploded, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Paxton Boy Injured
William McCrohan, aged 10, of Paxton, was playing on a building under construction on Sunday, when he fell. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Damages Claim Collision Near Taree Coraki Man Sued Newcastle
A case arising out of a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle near Taree on March 26, 1937, came before Mr. Justice Owen and a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cessnock Coroner Severely Injured Car Smash Near East Maitland
Mr. William Johnston, the Cessnock District Coroner, and member of the firm of Messrs. Barringham and…
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WHEN the speed limits were first applied in New South Wales, early this year, vigorous criticism was immediately…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision Between Bombers West Australian a Victim (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON
Mr. John Astley Cooper, of West Australia, was among the three persons killed in a collision between two R.A.F. bombers in South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Film Star's Accident
Clark Gable was clinging to a newsreel camera on top of a speeding automobile whilst filming the crash of Myrna Loy's airplane in "Too Hot to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collision with Car Cessnock
While riding his bicycle near East Cessnock School late yesterday afternoon, Sydney Adams, 28, of East End Unemployed Settlement, came into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hook in Neck Butcher Injured SYDNEY
Harry Lovejoy, 44, a butcher, was hooked through the neck yesterday by a meat hook at Hillard's butcher shop, in Forest-road, Hurstville…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Cyclist Injured
While riding his bicycle near East Cessnock School late on Wednesday afternoon, Sydney Adams, 28 of East End…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclist Injured Newcastle
Marjorie Lee, 2[?], a clerk living at New Lambton, received a lacerated wound above the nose, abrasions to the forehead, both knees, right thigh,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety Accident Reduction State Figures
For the first time since road accident statistics have been kept there has been a decrease in the figures during the first two, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Nine Hurt Collision at Raworth Car and Lorry
Nine persons, including a young married woman and her three small sons, were injured in a collision on Raworth Hill, between…
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Charles Presland (20). of Bolwarra, one of the nine victims of the collision near Morpeth last night, was discharged from Maitland Hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drowning Victim Perth
The body of James Lewis, 11, who disappeared in the sea last Saturday, was found at the week-end at Hillary's Camp. 2½ miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Injured at Work
Mr. H. J. Bartrop, of William-street, Singleton, was injured at his work when a piece of material which ho was lifting with the aid of two assistants…
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