U.s. Traffic Fatality Rate
The National Safety Council of America has advised the N.R.M.A., that for the first nine months of this year the traffic fatality rate in the…
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Young Cyclist Critically Injured
While cycling from Glenrowan to his home at Taminick (Vic), Charles Bennett, 12 years, was struck by a passing motor car and severely injured. A…
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W. F. ("Hefty") Stuart, the Australian professional road cycling champion in 1933 and an international rider, died in Melbourne Alfred…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Life-saver’s Fate Drowned During Practice Wonthaggi
The Secretary of the Wonthaggi Life-Saving Club, James Ralph Newman, aged 26, of Epsom street, South Dudley, was caught in a mass of seaweed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truck Crashed Into Greek Man Injured, One Escapes
Robert Brinsmead, of Tumbarumba, seriously injured on December 4 when T. W. Walsh's break-down truck crashed into a creek at Wondalga. He…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Accident at Brocklesby
On Monday night last Lorna daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Moorfield Brocklesby was admitted to the Corowa Hospital suffering from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Safe Christmas How to Reduce Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)
Tire Christmas holiday season, desired by all to be a time of happiness and recreation, too often is marred for hundreds of families by unfortunate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →14-Year-old Boy Drowned in Wodonga Creek
Alan Ernest Dowdie. aged 14. of 183 Scetchmere st., North Fitzroy, was drowned in the Wodonga creek at about 3 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods in China Feared 2000 Drowned Shanghai, December 17
Serious flooding in the Yellow River which has inundated 300 square miles of country has resulted in a heavy loss of life. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fatally Injured in Fall From Bicycle Melbourne
When the fell from the bicycle while riding in a race at Coburg, this afternoon, Robert Jeffrey, 18, of White st., Coburg,. Suffered a fractured skull…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truck Overturns Three Youths Injured—two Seriously Melbourne
Vincent Bolger, aged 17, Gower st., Preston, and Charles Grey, aged 17, Garnett s., Preston, were admitted to St. Vincent’s Hospital at 12.45 p.m…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Woman and Two Children Injured Car Overturns Near Bethanga Bridge
A woman and her two young children were injured when a car in which they were travelling overturned about three miles from Bethanga bridge late…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Figures in Unusual Accident Near Benalla Benalla
Mr. F. Martin had an unusual experience yesterday whilst driving a tractor to which was attached a header along the Boweya-Bungeet road. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Corowa Breadcartor Injured
Mr. Frank W. Kernaghan, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Kernaghan, aged 22 years, a breadcarter in the employ of Messrs. W. Elliot Pty. Ltd., of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Young Married Woman Found Drowned In Well. SYDNEY
Mrs. Edith Mary Pinkerton (23), of Kingsley, Warral in the Tamworth district, was found drowned in lift, of water in a well on the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Another Tomahawk Accident
As a result of an accident with a tomahawk, Barry McFarlane, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. McFarlane, or Redlands road, Corowa, was taken to the Corowa…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →36 Believed Drowned in River Collision Lisbon. Dec. 20
Thirty-six passengers are reported to have perished in a collision between the Tagus ferry boat Tonecas and the Italian dredger Finala Marina, in a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Inquest, on Wodonga Drowning To-day
All inquest will be held at Wodonga this morning into the drowning of Ernest Alan Dowdle, aged 14, of North Fitzroy, in tho Wodonga Creek, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eye-witness of Accident Awarded £2500 Damages London, Dec. 20
A woman eye-witness of a collision between a motor car and a lorry was to-day awarded £2500 damages and costs by the Manchester Assizes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Train Accident. Death of Mr John J. Kelly
A scolding train accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon of last [?]between Jerilderie and Yathong [?] as a result of which Mr John…
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