Safety First Driving Accident-Freedom Competition
In Great Britain, the National Safety First Association conducts each year a Freedom from Accidents Competitions. In 1931 more than 50,000 professional…
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Accidents, 1933
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To-day's Accidents
Cyclist Injured.—Ernest Hollingsworth, 44, of Tyrrell-street, Newcastle, fell from his bicycle while coming down Tyrrell-street to-day…
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While working in Cessnock No. 2 colliery yesterday afternoon, Joseph Shakespeare (20), a driver, living at Allandale-road, Cessnock, was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Disaster Collision at Bucharest BUCHAREST, January 10
A terrible accident occurred at the city's north station, when an express ran down a private local train. Five coaches with their human freight, were scattered…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Girl Drowned Swam Too Soon After Meal PERTH
The danger of bathing too soon after having a meal was disclosed at an inquest to-day into the death of Janet Ellen, Bowley, 12, who was drowned in Rowan's dam…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Bellambi" Blamed Bradley's Head Collision Light Buoy Suggested Sydney
The cause of the collision at Bradley's Head between the s.s. "Bellambi" and the "Mildura," on December 2 last, was the action of the '"Bellambi" in altering…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Night in Bush Injured Motor-cyclist GRAFTON
When Henry Hughes, 24, butcher, of Glenreagh, was thrown from his motor-cycle on a bush road, 18 miles from Grafton, at 11.30 o'clock at night. he crawled…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gored by Cow Man Severely Injured SYDNEY
While assisting a veterinary surgeon to inoculate a cow at Gladesville Mental Hospital late this afternoon. Walter Lewis, 30, of Gladesville, was badly gored…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rough Voyage "Maunganui" in Cyclone Five of Crew Injured Wellington (N.z.)
Struck by a cyclone, the wind attaining a velocity of 100 miles an hour, the steamer Maunganui experienced an exceedingly rough passage from San…
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Ernest Hollingsworth, 44, of Tyrrell-street, Newcastle, injured his left ankle and knee when he fell from a bicycle near his home yesterday…
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Knocked Down By Car.—James Maddison, 49, living at 24 Cessnock-street, Aberdare, was knocked down by a car at Cessnock to-day, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Air Force Fatality Accidental Death Verdict Engine Stalled in Take-off Windsor
A verdict that death was due to an accident was returned by the Windsor District Coroner to-day when he held an inquest into the death of Charles Middleton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Girl Was Drowned Swimming Pool Tragedy Kurri Inquest
"This is one of these unfortunate tragedies that happen in holiday time," laid the District Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Fell From Train Woman Slightly Injured SYDNEY
When she fell under a moving electric train early to-night, Mrs. Mary Rowe, of Granville, had a remarkable escape from serious injury…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Remarkable Escape Man Strapped to Falling Pole Accident at Armidale Armidale
Strapped to on electric light pole Which fell with him this morning, Graham Rochester, 18, had a miraculous escape from death…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Accidental Death Baby Scalded at Cook's Hill Verdict at Inquest
The Coroner (Mr. W. R. Pickett) conducted an inquest yesterday at Newcastle Courthouse into the death of Norman John Smith, 11 months, who died in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kurri Young Girl Drowned Boxing Day Tragedy Accidental Death Verdict
The Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) held an inquiry at the Kurri Kurri Courthouse yesterday into the circumstances associated with the death of Mabel Eileen Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Bodily Harm Charge Man Injured in Fall SYDNEY
William Harvey 30, of Mount-street, Coogee was admitted to hospital early to-night in an unconscious condition, suffering from a probable fracture of the skull…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Famous Boy Singer Nearly Drowned in N.Z. Wellington (N.z.)
Lex Macdonald, the famous boy soprano, who recently returned from a tour of Australia, narrowly escaped drowning at Dunedin to-day. He was caught in the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Storm Tragedy Tree Falls on Tent One Killed; Two Injured Lismore
Taking refuge from a storm in a tent with for other men, Mervyn Shelton, employed on the Bonalbo-road, was killed, and two others injured, when a tree was…
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