To-day's Accidents Youth's Foot Injured
Leonard Gearing (16) of High-street, Waratah had his right foot badly laccrated when it was caught in the back wheel of a motor evele to-dav…
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Accidents, 1938
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Blaze After Collision Motor-cyclist Burned: Skull Fractured SYDNEY
Alan Ling, 18, of Chatswood, was severely burned about the legs and lower part of the body when his motor-cycle caught alight after colliding with a sulky…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Five People Injured Car Overturns Near Awaba Station
When the car in which they were travelling skidded in loose grovel and overturned near Awaba Station to-day five people were injured…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Accidentally Killed Taree
The District Coroner (Mr. H. Flett), at an inquest into the death of Ronald Martin Noone, 3, who, at Tuncurry, was struck by a motor car driven by Oswald…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →To-day's Accidents Miner Injured
Arthur Perry, 61, shiftman, of Gordon-avenue. Cessnock, had his left side injured when he was struck by a prop at Aberdare Extended Colliery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Five Injured Car Overturned at Awaba
Five people were injured, none seriously when a car overturned near Awaba station on Saturday. It was proceeding from Eraring to Toronto, and skidded in loose…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Motor-cycle Mishaps Two Injured Near Gosford GOSFORD
Motor-cycle accidents between Peat's Ferry and Gosford during the week-end resulted in two people being admitted to hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yacht Destroyed Fire Follows Explosion Palm Beach Mystery Three Injured Men Rescued SYDNEY
One man was seriously injured and two others suffered burns when an explosion occurred on Mr. Harold Arnott's auxiliary yacht…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Baby Planet Near Collision with Earth "A Close Shave" Astronomer's Revelations (Australian Associated Press.) Cape Town, January 9
How the world narrowly missed a major terrestrial accident in October last year has been disclosed by Dr. H. W. Wood, the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Danube Floods Ice Floes Choke River Mouth 30 Persons Drowned 800 Families Now Homeless (Australian Associated Press.) LONDON, January 9
At least 800 families have been left homeless and 30 persons have been drowned at Valkof, a fishing centre of Rumania, because of ice…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Week-end Accidents
Len Gearing, 16, of High-street, Lambton, sustained extensive lacerations to the right foot on Saturday when it was caught in the wheel of a motor-cycle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Yesterday's Accidents Four Miners Injured
Struck by a prop while at work as a shiftman at Aberdare Extended colliery yesterday, Arthur Perry 61, of Gordon avenue, Cessnock, received an injury to his…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Injured Ankle
Mrs. A. J. Tierney, 56, of Seaham-road Woodville, dislocated and probably fractured her right ankle yesterday, when she slipped and fell. She was treated by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy Loses Life Strathfield Drowning SYDNEY
Anthony Woods, 10, of Homebush, was drowned in a crook running through portion of the Strathfield golf links today Some of his companions ran to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Boy Killed Motor Collision at Intersection BRISBANE
When a utility truck and a heavily laden motor-lorry collided at a street intersection at Enoggora this afternoon George Bayham, 12 of Ashgrove, who…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →No Foul Play Boy's Drowning in Lane Cove River Rescue Attempt by Dog Sydney
When the body of Michael Hardie Corbett, 2 years and 11 months, was found in the Lane Cove River on December 10 it bore marks which the police believed…
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George Ham, 24, of Swansea, suffered a fracture of the left leg while at work at Burwood colliery yesterday. He was taken by Newcastle Ambulance to a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To-day's Accidents Jammed Between Skips
Andrew Weir (27), of Teralba, a shiftman employed at the Pacific Colliery, had his pelvis injured when he was jammed between two skips in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Road Accidents in N. Zealand "Too Much Liquor," Says Minister Auckland
Reviewing the holiday casualties, the Minister for Transport (Mr. R. Semple) says that 17 were killed in motor accidents compared with nine…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidents 49 Above Average Lake Ambulance Had Busy Month
Of the 455 calls answered by the take Macquarie Ambulance last month, 119, or 49 more than the average, were accidents. The remainder…
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