Accidents
During the Christmas-New Year holiday period there were quite a few accidents of various causes, but fortunately none were fatal…
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Collision in Fog
Three people were admitted to Bulli Hospital on Monday afternoon after their car had collided with a blitz waggon…
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A two-year-old boy was drowned in the creek at Gerringong, only a short distance from his home on Monday last…
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On Tuesday last, Alan Fredericks, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Fredericks, of Jamberoo, had a fortunate escape from serious injury when he…
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A motor cycle pillion rider received service lacerations to bothy legs and arm; on Sunday, when the cycle collided with a car at…
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A woman was badly injured on Thursday afternoon when she tried to board a bus in Crown street, Wollongong, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →3 Vehicles Overturn Nine People Injured
Nine people were injured when two cars and a lorry overturned at Unanderra, Oak Flats and Albion Park on Sunday and Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Many Week-end Accidents
Nine people were injured in car accidents at the week-end, a bus ran over the foot of a small child, a cricketer…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brothers Injured
Two brothers, campers at Stuart Park, Wollongong, were injured when they fell out of a lorry in Crown street, on Tuesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Leg Injured; Amputated
A motor cyclist had his right leg so badly mutilated when he collided with a motor car on top of Bulli Pass an Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Injured Man on Roadway
Robert Sheppard, 28, of Stanhope st., Woonona, was admitted to St. George Hospital on Saturday night in a critical…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Overturns Driver Critically Injured
Mr. Robert Sheppard (29) single, of Stanhope street, Woonona, was seriously injured when his car overturned on the highway between…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Dog Causes Accident
A small dog was the cause of a car accident on the Prince's Highway near Rixon's Pass, Woonona, on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Quarter of a Million Accident-Free Miles For Local Air Service
By the end of December 1948 the Wollongong and South Coast Aviation Services had covered over a quarter of a million miles of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Injured Motorist Dies
Mr. Robert Sheppard (29), of Stanhope St. Woonona, died in St. George Hospital last Friday. Mr. Sheppard was seriously…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Motorcyclist Injured
Suffering from abrasions to his legs, arms and body a motorcyclist was taken by ambulance to the Wollongong District…
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A finding of accidental death was returned at an inquest held on Tuesday at the Wollongong Court House, into the death of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man's Death Accidental
At Wollongong on Tuesday the Coroner (Mr. R. B. Dunlop) held an inquest concerning the death of Joseph Alfred Gordon (33) of Vale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Smash At Kiama No One Injured
On Saturday night last the workmen's train bringing shift workers home from Port Kembla collided with a goods train standing in Kiama…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ship Capsizes Off Wollongong Twelve Drowned
Twelve men, including the captain, are believed to have been drowned when the intrastate Steamer, Bombo, capsized and sank off Wollongong about 10 o'clock on Tuesday night Two survivors came ashore at…
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