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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Crossing Smash at Mascot Two Seriously Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 December 1939 · page 1

A motor-car and goods train collided at a level crossing near Mascot on Monday afternoon. The car Was badly damaged…

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Seven Injured Motor Smash at Belmore SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 December 1939 · page 9

When a lorry and a motor car col[?] at Belmore, seven persons were [?]d. The car was catapulted 42 Police-Sergeant Erwin Clifford, 55…

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Causes Accidents "Cinema Blindness"

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 December 1939 · page 9

Statistics prove that frequent accidents occur through "cinema blindness," which onuses people to go from a cinema right into the path of a…

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Woman Injured Attacked by Boar ORANGE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 9

Mrs. Robin Foster, 30, of Murga, who was attacked by a boar yesterday, is now in the Orange Base Hospital suffering from internal injuries…

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Cyclist Injured Struck by Motor Car NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 December 1939 · page 7

Struck from behind by a motor lorry while riding a motor cycle to-day, William Joseph Johnson, 46, of Cleary-street, Hamilton, a locomotive…

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Shooting Fatality Death of Old Prospector

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 4

A shooting accident which occurred on the Upper Barrington River, near its junction with the Kholwa, on Monday afternoon, resulted in the death…

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Lorries Collide. Road Worker Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 1

Eric Clliford, aged 25, of Scone, was admitted to Dangar Cottage Hospital, Singleton, suffering from injuries received in a motor accident on…

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Cyclist Injured. Mr. W. E. Cooper

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 1

When returning to work on his bicycle yesterday, Mr. W. E. Cooper, head of the boot department at Campbell's, was knocked down by a motor…

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Four Injured Car Overturns on Pacific Highway

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 4

On Monday afternoon a serious motor accident occurred near Mograni Cutting, on the Pacific Highway. In taking the sharp bend a little past…

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Car Capsizes Man Killed : Two Others Injured ARMIDALE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 2

David Keith, irons, 29, or Mornington Hotel, Gregory Terrace, Brisbane, was killed, when a car overturned nine miles north of ARmidale on the New…

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Car Somersaults Near Armidale Man Killed and Two Injured

Singleton Argus · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 6

A man was killed and two others injured in a motor smash yesterday morning. The dead man was David Keith Irons, 29, of Gregory Terrace,…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 4

Jammed against a skip at Richmond Main Colliery yesterday, Stan Bennett, 19, of Coronation street, Kurri Kurri, received a sprained…

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Fatal Accident Toy Waggon Hit Lorry SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 December 1939 · page 5

When a miniature waggon in which they were riding, collided with a motor lorry in Darlinghurst, Charles Bell, 4, of Darlinghurst, was killed, and his…

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Man Drowned Casino

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1939 · page 8

Dick " Angus, 24, of Grafton, was; drowned at Dyraaba, 15 miles from Casino. With several other youths he went swimming in Dyraaba Creek, but…

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Three Injured Accident Near Booral NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1939 · page 7

When a car skidded and turned near Booral early this morning three persons were injured and taken to the Newcastle Hospital by the New…

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Soldier Killed Eight Others Injured Truck Capsized

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 December 1939 · page 1

A military truck containing nine men from the A.I.F. camp at Rutherford turned over when coming in to West Maitland about noon…

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Child Drowned Melbourne

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 6

Joan Paton, 8, of High-street, Armadale, was drowned between Edithvale and Aspendale, when she was trying to retrieve a rubber toy…

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Boy Drowned Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 2

Harold Keith Golding, 8, of Fair-light-street, Fivedock, wag drowned in the Burragorang River at Bimlow. The boy, whose parents were…

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Couples Injured Car Accident Near Wagga WAGGA

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 5

When the car in which he was driving left the road at Collingullie late at night, George Wallace, 26, St. George's Crescent, Drummoyne,…

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Cessnock Boy Injured Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 26 December 1939 · page 7

Riding a tricycle which he had received as a Christmas gift on the street near his home, Mervyn Picton, 7, of Church-street, Cessnock,…

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