Nine Persons Electrocuted in Truck-tram Collision Batavia
Nine persons were electrocuted and 50 burned when an army lorry collided with an electric train. The lorry bounced off the train and…
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Alleged Driver Did Not Stop After Accident
About £45 worth of damage was done to a Red Cross vehicle driven by W O Thomas Oldfield Newman, of the Red Cross, 106 AGH. when it was struck…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Woman Critically Injured Melbourne
Struck by a bicycle when she stepped off the footpath in Glenhuntly Caulfield, at 5.30 o’clock tonight, Miss Clara Hamel, aged 81, of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Woman Fatally Injured MELBOURNE
Fatal injuries were sustained by Alice Amy James aged 62 of Head St.. Elwood. when she was struck by a car in Malvern [?] Prahran. last…
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Charles Pilgrim, aged 83. an old-age pensioner, was drowned in Cabramatta Creek, Liverpool, late yesterday. Pilgrim and Arthur Brown. aged 54. who were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Victoria to Introduce “Courtesy Cops” to Limit Road Accidents
With a view to halting the growing road accident toll, Victoria intends adopting the British and American system of using solo motor cyclists to bring about more careful driving. The function of the patrols will be to advise road users wherein they are offending against…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Series of Accidents Armored Car Crashes Into Lorry GOULBURN
Two civilians and a soldier are in Bowral Hospital as a result of a series of accidents, involving a motor lorry and trailer, and an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Leg Amputated After Accident
A collision between a military motor-cycle. and a private car on the Albury-Wodonga road yesterday afternoon’ resulted in the amputation last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →NAZlS DROWNED 12,500 Pow Hamburg
Divers are to attempt to identify 12,500 prisoners who died when the Nazis scuttled three prison ships near Neustadt, Lubeck Bay, in 1945. says the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plane In Flames One Map Dead; Two Injured, SYDNEY
At an Australian National Airways hangar at Mascot yesterday afternoon, a plane caught fire, and a man was burned to death, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Little Boy Drowned SYDNEY
Clive Daniels, aged 4 years, was drowned in a waterhole in an old quarry at Maroubra this afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Man Shockingly Injured SYDNEY
Albert Dower, aged 45. clerk, of Balgowlah, received shocking injuries today when he fell from the eighth flour to third floor of the Colonial…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Girl Drowned When Dingy Overturns NEWCASTLE
When their sailing dinghy overturned on Lake Macquarie today Pamela Brown, of Roseville, was drowned and her companion, Derek Reynolds,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two Killed in Road Accidents Sydney
Keith Tayor, aged 20, of Penshurst, was killed tonight when the motor cycle he was riding, collided with a bus at Penshurst An Unidentified man…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Youth and Man Killed Bus and Car in Collision MELBOURNE
An eighteen year old youth was fatally injured when a bus containing 30 passengers, including supporters and members of the Healesville…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Items of News Truck Overturns; Driver Un- Injured
When the steering gear on a truck being driven by Mr K. McRoberts of Bungowannah Park, failed yesterday, about five miles from Albury. the…
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A motor accident occurred on the Finley-Tccumwal road about two miles from Finley on Wednesday evening, when a car collidied with a motor lorry…
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Miss Marjorie Smyth King, aged 40, of Dee Why, died on the way to Canterbury Hospital after being shockingly injured in a collision at Bankstown this evening. A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sailor Prevents Child From Drowning SYDNEY
While his mates held on to his legs. Able Seaman R. McKenzie, of HMS Shropshire, leaned over the Taronga Park wharf today and rescued a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Little Boy Drowned Sydney
Robert Russell, aged 6 years, of Percy street, Rozelle, was drowned when he overbalanced and fell from the wharf at Rozello Ray this…
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