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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

1,505 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 76

Four Injured Motor Cars in Collision ADELAIDE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 8

Mrs. Rose Archibald, of Ollera-street, Guyra, received injuries to the right side, abrasions to the forehead, lacerated and contused wounds to the…

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Driver of Truck Injured Spectacular Smash At Bolwarra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 5

The owner of a utility truck was injured and the vehicle almost wrecked in a spectacular smash on the Paterson road at Bolwarra…

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Hit by Tram Man Fatally Injured SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 2

Knocked down by a tram at Mardubra during a heavy rainstorm, James Rankin (49), single, of Maroubra, was dragged along the line for…

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Man Believed to Be Drowned Mother and Sons All-night Vigil. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 2

Although on intensive search has been made by the police for Percy Albert Honeysett, who is believed, to have been washed off the rocks and…

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Careless Pedestrians Blamed for Accidents Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 2

The strict enforcement of traffic regulations as they stand will not reduce Victoria's road accident toll, according to police and other traffic experts. They consider that any new regulations should not be…

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Fatal Fall Naval Rating's Death Accident in City Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 3

Conn McAndrew,-22, a seaman from H.M.A.S. Sydney, was found lying in the back yard of a residential at No. 167 Sussex street,…

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Fatal Accident Perth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 8

Nellie Margaret Kelly, 25, of Claremont, was knocked down by a motor car in Stirling Highway, Claremont, during heavy rain on Saturday night,…

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Pinned in Car Man Injured Near Bullahdelah

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 2

When a car in which he was a passenger ran off the road on the Bullahdelah Mountain and hit a tree on Friday, John Foley, 54, of Wickham…

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Injured Eye Incident at Rouchel. £2000 Claimed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 4

There was no appearance on behalf of defendant in the case at Maitland Circuit Court on Friday in which Clarence Connors, farm labourer, of…

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Road Safety. Skids Cause Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 1

Road accident reports from country centres for last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding and in the coming months many more…

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Youth Shot Pea Rifle Accident GOSFORD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 5

Robert Day, l6, of Gosford. was seriously wounded in a snooting accident near Woy Way. A pea rifle bullet had entered his abdomen…

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Road Safety Skids Cause Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 3

Road accident reports from country centres last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding and in the coming months many more…

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Crushed by Tree Butt Mill Worker Gravely Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 May 1939 · page 2

Prank Middleton, 20, a timber mill employee, was critically injured on Monday when a giant tree butt rolled on him at a mill north of Noojee,…

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Car and Bus Collision at Paterson PATERSON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 1

A collision occurred on the western approach of the Paterson Bridge yesterday, between a motor car driven by Mrs. Harriet E. Maccy of…

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Bomber Crashes New Zealand Fatality Christchurch (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 4

A Royal New Zealand Air Force officer was killed and two others were seriously burned when a Vickers Vildebeest bomber crashed into a tree at…

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New Zealand Air Force Tragedy Pilot Killed and Two Others Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 1

An Air Force pilot was killed and two other men were seriously burned when a Vickers Vildebeest crashed into a tree on the boundary of '…

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Double Tragedy at Kurri Echoes of Motor Smash. Accidental Death Verdict

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 10

Echoes of the tragic motor accident in which Olive Muir, 17, of Aberdara-street, Pelaw Main, and Allan Edden, 17, of…

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Fewer Accidents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 7

To Inspector Jack: He would not admit that the average reduction in accidents since the 1931 amendment Was 30 per cent…

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Rewarded for Bravery Saved Man From Drowning SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 1

Adopting the recommendation of the West Australian Surf Life saving Association, the Surf Lifesaving Association of Australia has awarded to…

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Pilot Badly Injured ROMA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 May 1939 · page 8

When his Gipsy Moth plane dived 100ft to Roma aerodrome Pilot R. J. Ross was seriously injured. He was instructing J. Crawford, 17,…

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