The Pedestrian Responsible for 2079. Accidents in Year (Issued by N.S.W. Road Safety Council)
From statistics available there has been no reduction in the casualty accidents attributable to the faults of pedestrians…
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925 stories in Murray's papers · page 7 of 47
Peculiar Accident
A peculiar feature of the recent hot spell was the tendency of limbs to crash down from green gum trees It is not uncommon for branches to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Inquest Into His Death Held on Man’s Birthday Howlong Road Accident a Laborer’s End
John Carl Adolph Schulz, laborer of Howlong, who met his death on the evening of January 17 when he fell from a truck near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Severely Injured Motorist Unaware Accident of Melbourne
With his ankle reduced to almost a pulp, and leg. fractured in three places, Robert Smith, 21, Edgevale road, Kew was left lying on a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Child Drowned in River Sydney
Irene Lake, 9, of Glenfield, was drowned in the river near her home to-day. She was a member of a picnic party and evidently fell in the river…
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The police think a heart seizure was responsible for the collapse of Mrs. Mary Turner, 70, widow, of Fishermen’s Bend, whose body was found…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Surf Boat Overturns Two Sydney Men Injured Sharks at Maroubra Sydney
Two members of the Freshwater Surf Club were injured when a surf beat overturned on a wave to-day. They were: Patrick O’Leary, of Glebe,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Truck Goes Over Accident Near Jindera Gap Two Men Fortunate
When a utility truck crashed into a kerb at the side of the roadway near Jindera Gap on Saturday afternoon two Albury men had a remarkable…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Elderly Woman Killed in Car Accident Melbourne
Struck by a passing car in Brunswick street, Fitzroy, on Saturday night Mrs. Sarah Northcott, 84, of Argyle [?] Fitzroy, was killed instantly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →86 Believed Drowned in Japanese Submarine Tokio, February 6
Six of a crew of [?] of the ocean-going submarine which sank on Friday after a collision with another during maneeuvres were rescued. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Albury Man Injured Fall From Train Melbourne
Falling from an electric train near the Sandringham station This morning, Mr. W. Minchin, aged 42, of West A bury, who was staying at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Boy Cyclist's Death. a Shocking Accident. SYDNEY
Rodney James Murphy, 12, was killed at Dundas, yesterday, when he fell beneath the wheels of a heavy trailer. The police were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Sommerlad Murder Inquest Opened and Adjourned Injured Man Still Grave Tenterfield
The inquest on Marjorie Constance Sommerlad, 38, of Hillcrest Farm, Tenterfield, was opened to-day and . immediately adjourned until March 7…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Crushed to Death at Corowa Brickworks Fatal Accident Yesterday
Sylvester Thomas Gallagher, 42, married, of Parade Place, Corowa died in Corowa District Hospital last evening as the result of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Albury Boy Drowned . Holidaying at Brighton Carried Out by Wave Melbourne
In a heavy swell at Brighton this afternoon, Russell Henry Barnes, 9, only child of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Barnes, Young street, Albury, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accident Victim Dies After Being 38 Days Unconscious Sydney
Jake Dyke, 30, who had been unconscious in St. Vincent’s Hospital for 38 days after being injured in a car accident, in which three people were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision in Yackandandah
On Wednesday a collision occurred in the lower end of High street, Yackandandah, between a utility truck owned by A. Melbourne, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albury Boy Drowned
In a heavy swell at, Brighton on Wednesday afternoon, Russell Henry Barnes, aged 9 years, only child of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Barnes, young…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident at Brickworks Mr. S. T. Gallagher Fatally Injured
On Tuesday last the death occurred at the Corowa Hospital as the result of injuries received in an accident at the Corowa Brickworks that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Car Strikes Culvert Deniliquin Residents Injured
Skidding in loose sand while approaching a culvert on the Mathoura-Echuca read about 10.30 o’ clock this morning, a motor car…
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