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Hunter Valley · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Bus In Collision At Funeral

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 2

A motor bus, which was part of a funeral cortege, was involved a head-on collision with a motor car at Beresfield late yesterday…

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Unusual Accident in Kelso Street

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 1 May 1946 · page 2

Mr Les Loder's log-hauling truck became involved in a peculiar accident in Kelso Street yesterday. Four cars were standing in the narrow…

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Three Injured When Truck Overturns

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 2 May 1946 · page 4

Out of control, a truck, in which three employees of Maitland City Council electricity undertaking were returning to…

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Injured In Jeep Accident

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 3

SINGLETON Friday — Three well-known soldiers from the local camp, Cpl. Parker, Cpl. Cox and W.O. Smith were admitted…

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Miner's Death Was Accidental

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Kurri Kurri District Coroner (Mr. W. O. Pl[?]kering) when he held an inquest at Kurri Kurri…

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Soldiers Killed In Road Accidents

Maitland Mercury · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 3

MELBOURNE; Friday Three road accidents in Wodonga (Vic.) caused the deaths of two soldiers and serious injury to a…

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Unusual Accident

Singleton Argus · Friday 3 May 1946 · page 2

An unusual accident occurred on the New England Highway near Whittingham railway station late on Wednesday afternoon, and…

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Seriously Injured in Race Smash

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 4 May 1946 · page 3

SYDNEY. Saturday. — Motor cycle chamion Art Senior and his passenger. E. Ring, were seriously injured in a smash at…

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Infant Brothers Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY Monday.—While an ambulance raced at more than 60 miles an hour toward Parramatta Hospital, two men in the…

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Fatally Injured In Fall

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday. — Victor Sutherland, 76, of Pymble, was fatally injured when he fell 12 feet from a window at his home…

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Bruno Mussolini’s Widow Found Drowned

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 4

MILAN, May [?].—Following the sinking of a British motor-boat on Friday, the body of Gina Mussolini, widow of Mussolini’s son,…

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Four Injured In Car Smash

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 2

When a motor ear overturned at the intersection of Pacific Highway and Main-road. Marks Point, four people were injured…

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Boy Seriously Injured in Cliff Fall

Maitland Mercury · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Monday. — While running after his dog at McKenzie’s Point, near Bondi, Kenneth Buan[?], 12. of Bondi, slipped…

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Two Infants Drowned Mother Found Them in Dam

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 May 1946 · page 1

While an ambulance raced at more than 60 miles an hour toward Parramatta Hospital, two men in the back applied artificial…

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Car Overturns After Collision

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 4

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Two men were injured when the car in which they were travailing came into collision with a truck on…

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Gina Mussolini Found Drowned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 3

Following the sinking of a British motor-boat, the body of Gina Mussolini. widow of Mussolini son Bruno has been recovered from Lake Como…

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Death of Lewis Henry Suzor Verdict of Accidental Death

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 May 1946 · page 3

The District Coroner (Mr. W. Johnston) on Friday afternoon, at Cessnock Courthouse, conducted an inquest into the death of Lewis…

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Soldier-Fatally Injured

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 4

NEWCASTLE, Thursday. — While Polling a utility truck that had broken down on the Pacific Highway at Adarnstown…

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Two Men Injured At Cessnoek

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1946 · page 5

CESSNOCK Thurs, — Robert Carmichael, 4, of Vincent-street, Cessnock a miner, employed at Stanford Main No. 2 colliery, fell…

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Men 82 and 63 Injured in Collision

Maitland Mercury · Friday 10 May 1946 · page 5

Two old residents of Dunn’s Creek, one 82 and the other 62 were injured and admitted to hospital when the sulky in which…

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