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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

526 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 4 of 27

3 Ton Crane Collapsed Under 7 Ton Load Disclosures At Inquest Into Dual-Fatality

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 21 February 1950 · page 2

The story of a crane crashing 120 feet to the ground at Nebo Colliery on December 13, carrying with it two men who received fatal injuries, was told at the Wollongong Coroner's Court on Friday…

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Strathaird Damaged In Collision

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 3

COLOMBO, Tuesday (A.A.P.)—Both the P. and O. liner, Strathaird (22,568 tons), and the American cargo ship, Steel Age…

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Four Injured on Prince's Highway

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday—A large sedan car was thrown back 10 feet onto a following motor cycle after a head on collision…

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Miner Injured at Nebo Colliery

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 February 1950 · page 2

Louis Campbell, 30, of 70 Auburn Street, Wollongong, was injured at the Mt. Nebo Colliery yesterday when he was struck…

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Power House Accident Stops Trains

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday Fifty, minutes in intense darkness was spent by hundreds of travellers when electric trains…

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Injured In Fall From Bicycle

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 February 1950 · page 2

As the result of a fall from a push bicycle yesterday, 11-years-old Robert Tofield, of-Keerong Avenue, Russell Vale, was…

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Motor Cyclist Injured When Wheel Collapsed

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 2

A motor cyclist was seriously injured on Saturday when the wheel, of the side box attached to the machine-collapsed…

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4 Deaths in Week-end Accidents

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 27 February 1950 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday.—Four men were killed and at least six others were injured in road accidents in N.S.W. over the…

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Fatality In Native Melee Over Tobacco

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 3

DARWIN, Monday.—A mainland aborigine was fatally wounded when he was hit by his own seven ft. four-pronged…

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Found Bleeding on Road Man Severely Injured

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 1

Police investigating an accident on Prince's Highway near the Mt. Ousley turn off on Saturday afternoon in which a man…

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Accidents made our Civilisation

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 28 February 1950 · page 1

Mention the word "accident", and most of us think in terms of screaming brakes, personal injury or material damage. The scope of its broader meaning, "a happening by chance", is often…

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Twenty-eight Drowned In Lifeboat

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Wednesday (A.A.P.)—Twenty-eight members of the crew of the London of tanker, Clam (7404 tons) were drowned…

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Injured on Way to Races

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 March 1950 · page 2

A man was injured on his way to the Kembla Grange races yesterday when the utility in which he was riding overturned on the…

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Accused of Drowning Daughter's Child

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—Anna Matilda Hoff, 60, alleged to have drowned her unmarried daughter's newly-born baby in a drum…

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Electrician Injured

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 3 March 1950 · page 2

An electrical linesman was injured at Unanderra yesterday when he was struck by an iron bar which fell while he was at…

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Child Drowned At Orange In Violent Storm

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—When a violent thunderstrom swept Orange for an hour and a half today a five-years-old boy was…

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Two Injured in Collision at Madden's Plains

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 2

A youth and a woman were injured when a motor cycle and car collided at Madden's Plains on Saturday afternoon…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 3

After an accident at Mullet Creek Bridge, Brownsville, in the early hours of yesterday, a man was admitted to Wollongong…

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Plane Down on Beach; 2 Injured

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 March 1950 · page 1

LISMORE, Sunday.—The pilot and passenger of a Tiger Moth plane which crashed on a beach one mile south of Brunswick…

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Youths Injured

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Tuesday 7 March 1950 · page 1

Two unusual accidents were attended by Illawarra Ambulance on Saturday afternoon. Colin Buchanan (9), of Purr…

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