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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

1,195 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 60

Lorry and Train Collide Man Dead, Boy Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 2

A man was killed and a boy severely injured when a lorry and a train collided with terrific force on level crossing at Wauchope late on…

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Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 3

While playing in a car on Sunday, Hyacinth Pembleton 9, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, fell through the windscreen. She…

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New Conditions—new Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 6

New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few more causes of road accidents. Immediately the new conditions…

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New Conditions New Accidents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 4

(Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales) New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few more causes of road accidents. Immediately the new conditions…

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1500 INCREASE Accidents In Victoria MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 2

In the year ended June 30, [?] traffic accidents were reported to the police in Victoria—an increase of 1500 on the near [?]…

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London Express in Collision Two Killed; 16 Seriously Injured. London, Tuesday (A.A.P.)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 November 1940 · page 2

The second train smash within 36 hours and the third within 24 days occurred at Gretna Junction tonight, when the London express…

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Motor-cycle Crashes Into Rocks Rider Fatally Injured

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 6 November 1940 · page 1

Raymond George Fletcher, 18, was fatally injured when a motor-cycle he was riding left the roadway, and crashed into rocks on the Armidale…

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CAR-TRUCK Collision At East Maitland Three Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 1

Three people were injured [?] seriously, [?] this morning, when a car, travelling [?] West Maitland, struck the [?]…

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Injured Nurse Advises Helpers Wollongong

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 5

A fatally injured nurse instructed her rescuers how to handle her as they extricated her from a capsized car. This was revealed in the…

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Fell at Flats Electrician Injured NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 1

Lawrence Fennell, [?] of Pelican, an electrician employed at [?] and Allen’s suffered concussion, abrasions and con[?]sions to the left side of his…

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New Conditions—new Accidents

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 4

(Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales). New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few more causes of…

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Transport Charge Result of Accident

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1940 · page 7

Frederick Victor Mc[?] of Bar B[?] Avenue, Newcastle, [?] to appear at East Maitland court to-day to answer a charge relating to the…

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Trapper Dies Injured In Colliery CESSNOCK

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 7

Alfred Leslie Price 16 who was employed as E trapper at Aberdare Colliery. died in Cessnock Hospital last night…

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Car Collides With Military Truck Three People Injured

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 1

Two people residing in the Cessnock district and one living at West Maitland were injured when a car struck the…

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Much the Same Condition of Injured A,A.S.C Men

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 7

SgL Dawe Pie. Summerville of the AAC. at Greata, who were injured when the car in -which they travelling overturned in…

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Looking Behind the Accidents

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 3

Behind each of the 28 fatal accidents already reported in this State for October there is probably a pitiful story of anguish and desolation. Some…

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Fireman Killed Accident Near Mark's point NEWCASTLE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2

Bernard [?]. a fireman on the steamer Mareeba, was fatally injured on the Pacific highway near Marks's Point, last Bight He was…

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Human Neglect Cause Of Motor Accidents Need for Care (Issued by the Road Safty Council of New South wales)

Maitland Mercury · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 6

Behind each of the 28 total accidents already reported in this State for October there is probably a political story of [?]…

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Injured in Fall From Train Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1940 · page 6

When he fell from a through train at St. Peters railway station. James Kirk, [?] of Sydney, was seriously injured. Central District Ambulance took him to…

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