Bad Roads Big Factor in Accident Toll
Inadequate or badly planned roads, intersections and bridges contributed very materially to accidents, Mr. J. S…
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21 Deaths In Peru Accident
LIMA (Peru): A lorry carrying 28 persons, plunged into a gorge 1300 feet deep near Chiciao, killing 21 of its…
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CESSNOCK: Robert James Hood, of Cessnock, a sawmill hand, was charged at the Cessnock Court .before Mr. F…
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A baby girl was drowned in a creek 50 yards behind her parents' home yesterday. She was Christine Smart, 17…
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BRISBANE, Friday.—Merlyn Heit (22), nurse from the Montrose Home for Clippled Children, was killed early to-day when a…
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Thomas Struthers, 10, of the camping area, Ravensworth, suffered lacerated wounds to the fold of his…
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SYDNEY: Jockey C. Laycock was critically injured in a training smash at Randwick to-day…
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Maxwell Spohr. 17, of Sparke-st., Maitland, an employee Bloomfield Stone Drive, his leg Jammed…
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Charles Nicol Pritchard, 17, of Hartley Street, Lambton, accidentally shot himself in the head while…
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Serious injury was luckily averted when a motor car crashed into Sandy Creek, about two miles from Muswellbrook, on Saturday…
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William Goodwin, 43, a miner, of Cruickshank Street, Bellbird, suffered an inury to the knee when he slipped on a…
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James Elston Jeffery, 20, of Charles Street, Abermain, died in Kurri Kurri Hospital on Saturday from injuries…
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BELGRADE: Ninety persons were drowned yesterday when a River Danube steamer, enroute from Belgrade to Zenum,…
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—Ninety people were drowned yesterday, when a storm overturned a River Danube steamer travelling from…
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SINGLETON: A man has been charged at Singleton following an accident at Jerry’s Plains in which a…
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A seven year old boy suffered a laceration and contused wounds to the forehead when he fell on a stairway on…
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Two people were injured in a collision between two cars in Regent-street, Maitland. last night. The cars…
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In an accident at the open cut on Monday afternoon, Maxwell Charlton, truck driver, sustained lacerations to the right leg…
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MAITLAND-A finding of accidental death was returned by the Maitland Deputy Coroner (Mr. V. R…
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A five-year-old girl suffered second degree burns when boiling water, was accidentally tipped over her yesterday. She…
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