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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

1,213 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 9 of 61

Dancer Injured Man From Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 12

Dancing in the pavilion at Speer's Point to-day, J. J. Greyhill, of Allendale road, Cessnock, a member of a picnic party, slipped and fell. Both…

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Car and Cycle Collide Three Persons Injured. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 7

Three persons were severely injured in a collision between a motor car and motor cycle at Hurstville to-night. Benjamin Sadler, 21, of Hurstville, was…

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Accident in Munich

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1928 · page 7

A hundred and seventy-five people were injured in the collapse of a grandstand in Munich yesterday, at the revival of the historic ceremony known on the "Butcher's…

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Schoolboy Drowned Stockton Beach Fatality

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 4

Stockton Beach was the scene of another fatality yesterday afternoon when William Keith Wallace, aged seven years, a schoolboy, who lived with his widowed…

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Surfing Fatality Inquest at Stockton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 2

At Stockton police station yesterday afternoon, Mr. W. R. Pickett, deputy district coroner, held an inquest into the death of John Wallace Oliver…

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Young Man Drowned Thirteenth Flood Victim TOOWOOMBA

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 12

A young man, Thomas Ronald Norris, of Stanmore, Ranger's Bridge, was swimming across the billabong at Dal by in company with another young…

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Traffic Accidents in 1927

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 3

A remarkable feature about the official traffic accident returns just issued, says the National Roads and Motorists' Association, is that while motor vehicles in…

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Fractured Skull Girl Struck by Car Maitland Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 9

Buffering from a fracture of the base of the skull, as a result of being knocked down by a motor car, Eileen Bischoff, a…

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Accident Toll Islington's Dangerous Corner Protest to Council

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 23 February 1928 · page 8

The corner of Beaumont-street and Maitland-road. Islington, has been the scene of many accidents during the past month…

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Speed Motoring Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 7

During a speed trial at Daytona Beach, Florida, Mr. F. Lockhart ran into the sea at a speed about 200 miles an hour. The car was completely wrecked…

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Lucky Escape Accident at Maitland

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 7

A party of youths and girls were lucky to escape serious injury when a car crossed the footway and crashed into a fence at the corner of…

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Maitland Accident Victim

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 24 February 1928 · page 9

Eileen Bischoft, who was admitted to Maitland Hospital after being knocked down by a car on Tuesday, has not yet regained consciousness…

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Stock Boy Drowned Seventeenth Flood Victim ROCKHAMPTON

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 3

The floods have claimed their seventeenth victim—a stockboy, Ron-std Finley, who was drowned in Smith Creek, near Yaamba…

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Motor Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 5

Newcastle Transport Ambulance was called upon yesterday to render service to three persons who were injured as the result of accidents, in which motor…

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Girl's Death Motor Car Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 25 February 1928 · page 3

After lingering in an unconscious state since she was knocked down by a car on Wednesday. Eileen Bischoffdied in the Maitland Hospital last…

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Collision at Sea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 5

The P. and O. steamer Moldavia, in response to an S.O.S. call, proceeded to a spot in the English Channel where she picked up a man clinging to a plank…

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Collision in Redfern. Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 4

A collision in Redfern inst night, between a taxi cab and a motor cycle and sidecar resulted in William Travis, of Kensington, who was passing, being knocked…

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Doctor Who Killed His Wealthy Lady Friend will be Imprisoned for Life Channel Collision Sole Survivor's Thrilling Story "Tremendous Crash" Steamer Sinks in Three Minutes LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 1

A tremendous crash—groans and curses from a blackened engine room—vain calls for the chief mate—the car-splitting roar of exploding boilers—and the stem of the Tovarisch wedged in the starboard quarter of the Alcantara…

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Other Motor Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 27 February 1928 · page 4

George Johnson, aged four years, living at 45 Fern-street, Islington, was knocked over by a motor car on Saturday morning, and sustained a fracture of the right…

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Killed by Train Woman Cut to Pieces Hamilton Fatality

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 28 February 1928 · page 5

Mrs. Margaret Lane, 88, who lived with her daughter, Mrs. A. Taylor, at 101 Fern-street, Islington, was cut to pieces by the…

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