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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

1,195 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 60

Unusual Accident Wollongong

Maitland Mercury · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 6

Frederick Peel, 37, of Corrimal, was seriously injured at the Australian Iron and Steel Works, Port Kembla, lost night, in a rare accident. He was…

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Cyclist Dies After Collision With Car NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1940 · page 5

Mr. Maxwell, 60, of Gosford-road, Broadmeadow, came into collision with a motor truck on Lambton-road Broadmeadow, this morning, while…

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Cycle Collapsed Wickham Resident Injured NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1940 · page 5

While Mr. E. Jones, 550, of Fleming-street, Wickham, was riding his bicycle to-day it collapsed from under him at Beaumont-street,…

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Two Seriously Injured Motor Cycle and Car Collided NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 September 1940 · page 5

Two people was seriously injured when a motor cycle and a lorry collided at the intersection of Bull and Daweon-street, Cook’s hill, to-day…

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Painful Injuries Accident in Hunter Street, Newcastle NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 16 September 1940 · page 5

Robert Grant, 47, labourer, of Eider-street, Lambton, suffered painful injuries when his bicycle and a car collided in Hunter-street, Newcastle…

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Miner Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 5

John Lowe, 50. of Congewai, miner, injured [?] back when he fell from a t[?]le at Pelton colliery yesterday. Cessnock…

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Skull Fractured Injured In Motor Accident NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 3

Two young men were injured when a motor cycle they were riding and a motor lorry collided near the [?] Violet Town turn-off last night…

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Volunteer Defence Unit Organiser. Fatally Injured in Car Accident. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 2

The death is announced of Mr. J. G. Waldon, a member of the Returned Soldiers' League Volunteer Defence Corps while on service. It appears that…

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Horse Fell Paterson Farmer Injured

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 1

Edward George Soper, 22, a farmer, Paterson, had a narrow escape from serious injury to-day when his horse slipped and rulled on him…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 4

John Coleman, 17 a sidler, residing at Mathieson-street, Bellbird, sustained an injury to the big toe when a horse trod…

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

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 6

I suppose there aren't many motorists who have riot had the experience of either bumping into the rear of another car or of being bumped on…

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Railway Accident at Gloucester Station

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 September 1940 · page 2

Whilst seeing off a brother leaving by the Kempsey mail on Saturday night for camp in tine A.I.F., Mr. Ben Fordham met with a shocking…

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“No Warning” Woy Woy Tunnel Fatality

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 September 1940 · page 7

Allegations that the train which ewept four men to death la the darkened Woy Woy tunnel, while they were engaged on railway repair…

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Two Injured Accidents at Stanford Main No. 2 CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 September 1940 · page 7

There were two accidents at Stan ford Main No. 2 Colliery to-day. Jack Wilson. 34, residing at Bell bird, received a probable fracture of…

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Youth Killed Car Accident At Glen Innes Two Collide Glen Innes

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 September 1940 · page 9

When two cart collided at Glen Innes yesterday afternoon three persons were injured, one fatally. The [?] were; Mr, Thomas…

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Fewer Accidents Figures For The State Year’s Road Toll

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 19 September 1940 · page 6

Figures released by the Commissioner for Road Transport and Tramways (Mr. Neale) show that the number of accidents in New South Wales…

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Boy Drowned in Water Tank

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 8

When Leslie Gordon Sedman, seven years of age, fell into a water tank at his parents' home in Melbourne on Wednesday, his mother…

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Hand Injured Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 1

Arthur Townsend, 17, a clipper employed at Paxton Colliery, had the third and fourth figners od his left hand lacerated to-day when it was…

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Injured by Runaway Skip Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 1

While working at Richmond Main colliery to-day John Duncan, of Barton-street. Kurri Kurri, received injuries to the back when he was…

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