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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Road Dangers Careless Opening Of Car Doors 152 ACCIDENTS

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1939 · page 9

The careless opening of car doors was one of the main contributing factors which led to 152 accidents in which horses and other…

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Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 7

Moltain, George Nattress promising two-year-old fifty was injured while travelling home from Maitland races in a…

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Accidental Death Coroner's Finding After Inquest Tuesday's Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 5

A finding of accidental death, caused by a fracture of the neck, was recorded by the District Coroner (Mr. J. T. Williams) after he had…

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Colliery Employee Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 5

Caught in a coupling at Stanford Main No. 2 Colliery to-day, John Westlake, 17, of Abbotsford-street, Bellbird…

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Young Man Killed Struck by Falling Limb Bush Fatality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 2

Struck by a limb of a tree while at his work in the bush at Main Creek on Tuesday morning, Anthony John Hicks, aged 22 years, was killed…

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Sergt. Robertson Seriously Injured Car Turns Over

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 1

A car, driven by Mr. W. Harris, of the Empire Hotel, Scone, turned over at the turn-off of the Quirindi-Wallabadah road yesterday afternoon…

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Miner Injured Fall of Coal at Aberdare Central CESSNOCK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 7

John Howells, 54, of Aberdare-street, Kitchener, a miner employed at Aberdare Central Colliery, received an injury to the left leg, minor…

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Strange Wave of Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 December 1939 · page 6

In six days last week six persons were killed in four accidents in which motor cycles were involved. In addition, a number of persons were…

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Youth Injured Motor Cycle Bumps Car NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1939 · page 7

Thrown from a motor cycle at wa[?]end last night, Athol Linsley, 18. was severely injured. He was admitted to Wallsend Hospital with a fracture and…

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Injured Wrestling

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 7

Leonard Toohey, 20, of Earlwood, fractured his loft leg, and John Moncell, 20, of Camperdown, suffered concussion and probably a fracture of the…

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Car Accident Man in Dickey Seat Injured

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 4

Neville Pascoe, of High-street, West Maitland, was admitted to Maitland Hospital suffering with inuries to the back. He was travelling in the dickey…

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Collision Between Lorry and Sulky

Singleton Argus · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 2

Three occupants of a sulky received a fortunate escape from more serious injury when a motor lorry collided with their vehicle on…

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Pinned by Car Fatally Injured GUYRA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1939 · page 4

Patrick Joseph Cregan, 23, of Marbole, Ben Lomond, was fatally injured when a motor car collider with a tree, on Sunday morning. Cregan was…

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Injured in Motor Collision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 9

Ivy Smith, 25, of Mayfield East, received concussion and shock, and Barbara Smith, 4, of the same address, a lacerated wound to the forehead, a…

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Shrine Fatality Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 6

The body, of a man found lying at the eastern base of the Shrine of Remembrance has been Identified as that of Prank Blackwood, 31, of…

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Two Charges Sequel to Collision Pleas of Guilty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 6

Pleas of guilty were entered by Francis William Hoffman, of West Maitland, at the West Maitland Court to-day to charges of…

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Accident at Baths

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 5

Neville Boughton, 13, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, had his left arm fractured when he fell at the Cessnock baths last…

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Four Charges Fatal Accident Sequel

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 1

Arising from an accident at Raworth on November 4, in which James Rich mond Samuel Henry, of Morpeth, was fatally injured, William Joseph…

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Motorist Fined Sequel To Accident

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 December 1939 · page 7

As a sequel to a motor cur overturning on the Fasterton road on October 15. Alfred Cyril Smith, of Cook's Hill, appeared before Mr. R. Soiling…

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Injured While Diving

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 December 1939 · page 9

G. Lee. 11 Hunt-street, Enfield, suffered injuries to the back and concussion when he struck an iron rail while diving from a 15ft. tower at Enfield…

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