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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

125 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 2 of 7

Car Passenger's Death Accidental

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 10

A finding of accidental death wad returned at the inquest at Bulli on Tuesday into the death of John P. Dalzell, 24, of Bronte…

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Sydney Man's Death Accidental

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 26 February 1948 · page 10

After inquiring into the death of John Percival Dalzell, who was killed when a car overturned near Helensburgh on December 7 last…

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Witness Collapses at Inquest Jeep Fatality Accidental

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 14

One witness collapsed and another had to be allowed to sit down at Bulli Coroner's Court on Tuesday while describing how a…

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Car Collision at Fairy Meadow

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 5

While driving north along Princes Highway, Fairy Meadow, on Thursday night, William Walls, of Lawarra Street, Port Kembla, was…

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Motor Cyclist Fatally Injured

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 1

Keith Gordon Fraser (35), of 267 Main road, Corrimal, was fatally injured when the motor cycle he was riding collided with a motor…

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Man Killed in Coal Lorry Collision

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 14

Turning to wave to a friend in the leal loading depot in Cordeaux Road, Central Kembla, while riding his motor cycle on…

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Accidental Death Verdict Discharged on Manslaughter Charge

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 9

A finding of accidental death was brought in by the Bulli District Coroner (Mr. R. B. Dunlop) at an inquest which conclude at…

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Harvey Gale, Dead Shooting Accident in Japan

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 March 1948 · page 7

The news on Sunday night of the death in a shooting accident in Japan of Lieut.-Colonel H. E. Gale, O.B.E., M.B.E., of Wollongong, came…

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Fairy Meadow Fatality Drowned in Ditch

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 11 March 1948 · page 1

Harold Ernest Davies (27), of Dapto, a married man with two children, was drowned in a ditch containing a few inches of water…

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Accidentally Drowned in Lorry Crash

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 11 March 1948 · page 20

"Most extraordinary" was how the deputy Coroner (Mr. W. S. Musgrave) described the death of Harold Ernest Davies (33)…

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Motorcyclist Fatally Injured

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 7

Ernest John Lukies (27), single, of Purr Purr ave., Lake Illawarra South, died in the Wollongong Hospital last Sunday afternoon from injuries…

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Fatally Injured in Motor Cycle Fall

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 5

Ernest John Lukies (27), Purr Purr Avenue, Lake Illawarra South was fatally injured when he fell from his motor cycle on the…

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Motor Cyclist's Death Accidental

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 18 March 1948 · page 7

A finding of accidental death was returned at the Bulli Coroner's Court yesterday at an inquest into the death of James Thomas Baker (26), of…

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Accident

Kiama Independent · Saturday 20 March 1948 · page 4

Mr. Harry Donnelly, of Koona Street, Albion Park, met with a serious accident at Jamberoo on Tuesday last…

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Motor Cyclist's Death Accidental

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 4

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Deputy-Coroner, Mr. W. S. Musgrave, after he had heard evidence of how Keith Gordon Fraser…

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Motorist's Death Accidental

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 3

An inquest into the death of Isaac Jones (57), steelworker, of Blackett street, Wollongong, who died in the Wollongong Hospital on February 1,…

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Accidental Death Coroner's Finding

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 25 March 1948 · page 14

A collision between a smell black sedan and a taxi on the Prince's Highway. Unanderra on January 31, caused the…

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Three Injured in Bike-car Collision

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 3

A man, his daughter and her companion were injured when the motor cycle and side car in which they were riding, collided with a…

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Fatal Accident Sequel

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 2

There was a sequel to a fatal accident last December in the Helensburgh Court, on Tuesday of last week when the driver of the car involved…

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Motor Cyclist's Death Accidental

Illawarra Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 4

At an inquest, at Bulli, into the death, of Norman Hugh Sutton (19) of Richmond, a finding of accidental death was returned…

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