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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

1,195 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 60

Child Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 8

Jweh Winchester is living with her parents in High-a[?] West Mainland was thrown from a holting horse in Grant-street, West Maitland…

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Three Injured Car Smash at Booral

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 2

Three peraoue were injured when a car collided with another near Booral Mrs Gewe Levy. [?] of Dumarean…

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Car and Lorry Collide. Muswellbrook Residents Injured

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 1

Three Muswellbrook residents travelling to Scone and a motor lorry were involved in a head-on collision near Aberdeen on…

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Three Injured Two Cars and Motor Cycle Collide SYDNEY Tuesday

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 8

Three men were injures last nigh a collision involving two mm and motor cycle in Elisabeth-street. Waterloo…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 3

Ronald Garvey, 7, of McDonald avenue, Paxton, fell from a sulky on Sunday and fractured his left collarbone…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 2

Jack Bernell, 24, of McGranestreet Cessnock, fell While jumiping at the Cessnock Show Ground yesterday. He…

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Straying Stock on Roads. These Cause Accidents. (Issued by the Bond Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 3

Reports of road accidents throughout the State shows that there is a noticeable increase in those caused by straying stock on the streets of…

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Car Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 2

On Sunday morning at Lord and Brown streets intersection, a car driven by Mr. C. Henny, who had with him his 17-months-old…

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These Cause Accidents

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 3

Reports of road accidents throughout the State show that there is a noticeable increase in those caused by straying stock on the streets of…

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Car Accidents Child Struck Over Eye DUNGOG, Tuesday

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1940 · page 6

On Sunday morning, Lord and Brown-streets Intersection, a car driven by Mr. C. E. Henry, who had with him his 17 months-old grandeon…

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Arm Injured

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 5

Mr. S. Adams, a baker, of High-street, Largs. suffered a lacerated wound to the back of his right arm to-day when the engine of his lorry…

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Eye Injured Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 2

Mr. P. Marshall, of Castlereagh-at Singleton, suffered an injury to his left eye when at work at Gould Brossawmill yesterday. He was struck by…

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Struck by Lorry Boy Injured at Hamilton NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 1

John Gearing, 9, of Lambton-road, New Lambton. was knocked down by a motor lorry this morning on the corner of Steel and Church-streets,…

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Road Technique Skidding Cause of Accidents Safety Appeal (Issued by the Road Safety Coucil of New South Wales)

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 4

This is the time of the year when there are more deaths in road accidents than at any other period. Experience over the last…

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Accidentally Touched Live Wire Driver Electrocuted

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 2

John Rawlings, 22, motor driver employed by Messrs A. Pitman Pty. Ltd., Commercial Road, Rozelle, was electrocuted on Monday afternoon…

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Circuit Court Injured in Collision Claim for £2000

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 6

As compensation for damages and injuries sustained in a motor accident on September 14, 1936, James Harrison Dobson, of…

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Injured in Fall Singleton

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1940 · page 1

Dong Connelly of Ravensworth, slipped on the dance floor at the N. A. A. Pavilion at Singleton last night. He suffered head injuries and…

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Injured in Collision at Ravensworth

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 6

A transport lorry carrying a large consignment of petrol, and another lorry, laden with timber, collided near the overhead bridge at…

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Honeymoon Spoilt Motor Collision at Girvan

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1940 · page 5

On a motoring honeymoon Mr. and Mrs. J. Levy, of Sydney, had their tour interrupted at Girvan, on the North Coast road run between Booral…

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