"Chinaman's Luck" in Accidents
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Lee Chong, of Alexandria, a Chinese fruiterer, was involved in a collision with a car at the intersection of Flinders…
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Accidents, 1945
580 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 29
Boy Accidentally Shoots Brother
MELBOURNE. — Fifteen-year-old Peter Winter, of Kew, was ejecting i cartridges from a borrowed 22 calibre rifle in his bedroom last night while…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A party of people aboard the launch Wheronui, at Rose Bay on April 28, had no idea one of their number had fallen…
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While playing football at Connolly Park, Carrington on Saturday, Frank Clinton, 18, of Darby-street, Cook's Hill, suffered concussion. He was…
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Two men and a child were injured when they were struck by a cart as they alighted from a tram in Maitland-road. Islington,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—An N.C.O. was killed and 29 soldiers, including two officers, were injured when a car crashed into a group of servicemen…
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Thomas Regan, 49, of Daniel Street. Cessnock, a miner employed at Cessnock No. 2 Colliery, received extensive injuries to the head and…
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Thrown to the roadway when his bicycle was struck by a bus at Belmont lost night, Kevin Neil Harman, 15, of George-street, Belmont,…
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Two men who were injured in road accidents on Monday night died yesterday. A third is in a serious condition in Newcastle Hospital…
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SYDNEY.— More than half the Albury Mail train was derailed near Marulan about 2.30 a.m. today, blocking all traffic on the main…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—In a fall from a second floor window to a concrete path 20 feet below, at Government House, Calvin Robb, 20, was seriously…
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Three footballers were injured in the same match at Hexham yesterday. They were all taken to the Mater Misericordiae Hospital…
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Handicapped by an injured arm which, until Friday, was in a sling, J. Leary, full-back for R.A.A.F., was oustanding in the Rugby Union…
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BRISBANE, Sunday.—Some patients in an R.A.A.F. mercy plane which crashed in heavy fog near Longs reach were knocked unconscious by…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Three British sailors were injured when a Royal Navy truck, loaded with men, collided with a car and veered off…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Ronald Beaten, 18, of Dulwich Hill, had his right arm amputated following an accident to-night…
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While walking round the end of a plate, 30ft. long, at the Steel Works on the night of May 15, George Yule, 50, shearsman, of Fawcett-street,…
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Five people were injured when a motor-car and lorry collided at Victoria Bridge on East Maitland road on Saturday night. All were admitted…
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Ray Wattus, 35, of Carmichael Street. Raymond Terrace, was seriously injured when a pulley block fell on him at Berry's sawmill…
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Five men were injured, none seriously, when a lorry and car collided in Newcastle Street. East Maitland, on Saturday night…
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