Injured Shunter Still Critical
The condition of Cecil Cook. 36. shunter, of Young-st., Carrington, who was crushed between the buffers of trucks at…
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Accidents, 1948
707 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 10 of 36
Father Killed, Family Injured In Road Smash
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A man was killed and his wife, two children and two other persons were injured when a car and a truck…
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Roderick McCarthy, 37, of McDonald-avenue, Paxton, and Rupert McCarthy, 35, of Anderson-avenue, Paxton, who were working on a…
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SYDNEY, Thursday. — Marjorie Joyce Whale was awarded £2500 damages against the Commonwealth in the Supreme Court to-day…
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LONDON, March 26. A.A.P.—Air Vice-Marshal Sir Philip Game, former Governor of New South Wales, received a fractured ankle…
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LONDON.—A man who forced his attentions on a married woman with whom he had been associating, and who…
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Jean MeVicar, 11, of Laman-street, Cook's Hill, received a severe wound to the left thigh and injuries to the left foot when she…
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Despite fairly heavy holiday traffic on Newcastle and districts roads which started at sun-down on Thursday night and continued…
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Strict police supervision of road traffic is believed to be responsible for Newcastle's excellent holiday accident record yesterday. Despite comparatively heavy…
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Robert Burke (33) of Macleay St., King's Cross, suffered a probable fractured skull, lacerations to the scalp, abrasions…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.—A man was killed and five people were injured when a car crashed into a stationary milk truck at Diggers…
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Frank Byers, 6, of Darling-street, Carrington, was drowned near the Timber Wharf, at the foot of Darling-street, yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY:—The driver and conductor of a tram narrowly escaped death in a smash between the tram and a 5-ton…
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John Stevenson, 30, of Congewai-street, Aberdare, a miner employed at Abermain No. 2 colliery, was caught by falling coal which…
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Two miners were injured by falls of stone and coal in two collieries in the Newcastle area yesterday. Kenneth Sainsbury, 31, of…
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SYDNEY: A 69-year-old watchman lay eight hoars in a wool store at Pyrmont last night with a fractured ankle…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Two men were admitted to hospital to-night following a road accident on Fie Tree Bridge, Lane Cove…
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SYDNEY: "Indifference to danger by motorists and neglect of duty by some garagemen," are considered by the N.R.M.A. to be the reasons why defective equipment was responsible for 43 deaths in…
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Four miners were injured in accidents in coal mines yesterday. Charles Edwards, 58, of Main-road, Cardiff, a miner at North…
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John William Cantrill, 20 months, was drowned yesterday when he wandered from his home in Parkville, near Scone. His body…
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