Fatal Accident. Man Killed. When Motor Truck Over. Turned
The District Coroner, Mr. J. T. Williams, has fixed Monday of next week for holding an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death…
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Road Accidents
Road accidents in the State in 11 months to November 30 were 1524 fewer than in the corresponding period of 1937. Fatalities totalled 514…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fatal Collision Lorry Driver For Trial INVERELL
A collision between a motor lorry and motor cycle on the Gwydir Highway, two miles west of Delungra in the early hours of Christmas morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Car in Flames One Killed : Five Injured GEELONG
Six were injured, one fatally and three critically, when a car, after leaving Angelsea-road, near Bellbrae, at about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Injured Long Tour Ends in Smash SYDNEY
Four Victorian residents were injured when the motor car in which they were returning to Melbourne after a motoring tour of Queensland…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Three Deaths Drowning Fatalities BERRY
Harold Thompson, 18, of Port Kembla, was drowned yesterday while swimming in the Broughton Mill Creek, about a mile rom Berry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →National Park Lagoon Fatality Newcastle Boy Drowns
Ray Osland, six years of age, of Glebe, Newcastle, was drowned in a lagoon at Wattamalla Beach, National Park, yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatal Collision Near Delungra Lorry Driver Committed for Trial
A collision between a motor lorry and motor cycle on the Gwydir Highway, two miles west of Delungra in the early hours of Christmas…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Injured Following High Dive at the Baths
Following his striking his head on the bottom of the baths after a high dive on Saturday afternoon, Mr Fred Withers, of the staff of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Struck by Train Railway Employee Fatally Injured SYDNEY
Charles Wood (50) railway employee, was fatally Injured to-day when he was struck by a train when working on the line near Hornsby…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Smash at Level Crossing Iman Dead and Son Injured
George Packham, aged 47, of Orange, was killed, and his son, Frederick Packham, aged 18, was injured when their lorry collided with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One Killed Truck Collides With Post Four Injured Wollongong
Five persons were injured, one fatally, in a motor accident on the Prince's Highway. A truck, travelling about 35 miles an hour,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Railway Employee Fatally Injured Walking on Line Near Hornsby Sydney
Charles Wood, aged 50, a railway employee, was fatally.injured to-day, when he was struck by a train while walking on the lino near Hornsby…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog Coroner Probes Motor Fatality Truck Smash On The Clarence Town Road a Dangerous Curve Dungog
The Dungog Coroner, Mr. Williams, held an inquiry at Dungog to-day into the death of Thomas Birrell, who was killed when a motor truck overturned near Clarence Town…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Burning Accident
Marie Byrnes (5), living with her parents at Nemingha, was on Sunday morning severely burned about the chest, on the left side, on both hands,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Show Accidents Judge's Important Ruling
A judgement of considerable interest to agricultural societies throughout Australia was delivered by Acting Judge Fuller in the District Court…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four "Absolutes" for Road Safety Keeping Highways Accident Free. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Here are what might be called the four "absolutes" for checking oneself in an effort to solve the human factor in the accident problem…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Drowned Grafton
Patrick Clarence Moloney, 28, a share farmer, wan drowned in Carr's Creek, near Grafton, yesterday afternoon. He had walked into the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cycling Accident Denman Youth Injured DENMAN
Donald Foote, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Claud Foote, of Randwick Park, Denman, was admitted to Arcadia private hospital in a critical condition…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Motor Lorry Fatality Alleged Negligent Driving Committed for Trial
At the conclusion of evidence last evening at Dungog at the inquiry conducted into the death of Thomas Edward Birrell as the result of a motor accident on the Clarence Town road, near Dungog, on December 23, the Coroner, Mr. J. D. Williams,…
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