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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1936

2,120 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 106

Two Killed in Smash Motor and Cycle Collide Second Man Injured Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 6

A man and a child were killed and a man was rendered unconscious this afternoon in a smash at Anzac Parade and…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 3

INJURED IN COLLISION.—When his motor cycle and a motor car came into collision at the corner of Bull and Bruce Streets. Cook's Hill,…

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Boy Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 9

Desmond Brown, of Melbourne-street, West Maitland, fell in the yard at his home yesterday. He sustained a lacerated wound to the top of the head, and was…

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Fatally Injured Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

Michael Coghlan Divan, an elderly man, died of internal hemorrhage in the General Hospital yesterday afternoon. He had been thrown from his cart, which…

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Three Injured Motor-Truck Capsizes MELBOURNE

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

When a motor-truck in which they were passengers skidded and overturned on the Prince's Highway, at Nar Nar Goon, at 3 p.m. to-day, the occupants were…

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Two Injured in Smash Motor Cycles Collide

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

Two men were injured in a collision between two motor cycles at the intersection of Mailand-road and Carrington-street, Mayfield, this morning…

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Two Killed Sydney Collision Motor-cycle and Lorry Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 8

William Dellahunty, 54, and his grand-daughter, Shirley Dellahunty, 3, of Buckingham-street, City, were killed, and another man was seriously injured, when a…

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Two Drowned Rowing Boat Capsized Woman Saves Companion Brisbane

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

Two men—James Waldie and James Pollard were drowned when a rowing boat, in which they were accompanied by two young women, capsized on the Burnett…

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Four Injured in Car Smash Struck Street Pole at Parramatta Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

Four people vere injured when a car. swerving to avoid another car, skidded in some loose gravel in the Great Western-road, near Pitt-street…

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Down Embankment Locomotive Leaves Rails Firemen Injured Broken Hill Line Washaways SYDNEY

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

Arthur Wright, a fireman, sustained a severe leg injury and shock, and several other men narrowly escaped when a length of the main Broken Hill railway line…

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Six Injured in Car Smash Wasp Caused Driver to Lose Control Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

Six were injured in a smash at Nar Nar Goon, when a wasp fiew into the cabin of a motor truck and made the driver lose control of the vehicle…

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Struck by Car Two Men in Hospital Week-end Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

Two men were admitted to Newcastle Hospital on Saturday night, after having been accidentally struck by a motor-car at the corner of Maitland-road and…

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Accident Victim

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 5

Seriously injured in the motor smash on the Charlestown-road on christmas Eve, when a youth was killed. Miss Mabel Thompson, aged 21. of…

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Cycles Collide Men Injured at Mayfield

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 4

Two men were injured when the motorcycles they were riding collided at the corner of Maitland-road and Carrington-street. Mayfield, yesterday morning…

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Tried to Avoid Girl Cyclist Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 6

Trying to avoid a girl at West Wallsend this afternoon, Peter Smith, aged 15, of Withers-street. West Wallsend, who was riding a bicycle, swerved…

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Two Trams Collide Eighteen People Injured Crash in Balmain Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 5

In a sensational smash between two trams, at the corner of Weston-road and Barnes-street, Balmain, early this…

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Struck by Heavy Sea Three Killed and Four Injured on S.S. Ulysses London

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 1

The Blue Funnel liner Ulysses has arrived in Swansea Bay. and a doctor has gone aboard. It is not expected that the three…

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Three Killed Accident on Ulysses LONDON, January 6

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 5

Three members of the crew were killed and four were injured in an accident aboard the Ulysses, which left Liverpool yesterday for…

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Canon and Son Victims of Motor Accidents YASS

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 9

Canon W. L. Langley, of All Saint's, Woollahra is in Yass Hospital, and his son, Alan, is in Corowa Hospital. Both are victims of motor accidents…

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To-day's Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1936 · page 6

BOY INJURED.—While playing with a toy tricycle to-day, Ray Osborne, aged 11, of Victoria-street. East Maitland, caught his leg in the mechanism…

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