Injured As Ran to Tram
A newsboy was struck by a car and critically injured late yesterday afternoon when he rushed across Scott-street to board a tram…
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Accidents, 1948
707 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 36
Pinned In Ditch Under Truck, Drowned
WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.—When a motor-lorry overturned on Princes Highway, Fairymeadow, to-day and pinned two men in a ditch…
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WELLINGTON, Tuesday.—A Christchurch woman climber, Miss Ruth Adams, is lying injured in an ice cave on the slopes of Mount…
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An elderly woman is believed to have been drowned in the Hunter River near the Belmore Bridge last night or early…
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Three men were injured when a car and a bus collided at Teralba today. Percival Walters, 48, the…
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The body of a man, who told a friend that he was going swimming, was found in a water hole at South Cessnock…
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Thomas Costello, 62, residing at Royal Oak Hotel, was found drowned in a water hole at South Cessnock late yesterday afternoon…
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SYDNEY, Friday. — Three girls were injured when a truck loaded with three tons of potatoes crashed through an Erskineville factory…
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Percival Walters, 48, Manager of Pacific colliery, Teralba, was seriously injured on Saturday when his car and a bus collided. He was…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A man made an unsuccessful attempt to save a friend from drowning in the George's River at Liverpool,…
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SYDNEY.—"Fifty-nine-year-old miner, Stephen Tucker, was rushed by plane from Cessnock to Sydney yesterday for an…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—Stephen Tucker, 59, of Aberdare, was flown from Cessnock to Sydney in a specially chartered ambulance plane…
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Alan Henderson, 20, of Wallsend-road, Cardiff, was fatally injured yesterday afternoon when his motor-cycle and a lorry collided at…
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A 32-year-old man was seriously injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a truck at Wallsend this morning…
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Some employers were persuading men with injuries to go on working instead of going on compensation, the Secretary of Newcastle branch…
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Malcolm McLean, 14, of Perkin-street, Newcastle, who was injured on February 9, when he ran to board a tram, died in…
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PARIS, Feb. 17. A.A.P.—A launch carrying 160 sailors from U.S.S. Midway back to their ship after a party in their honour…
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BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Five people were injured to-day when a section of a rail car crashed into a coal truck a mile from Mt…
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The accident toll in industry today was colossal and yet 98 per cent, of all accidents could be prevented, Mr. J. N. Laman…
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When he was struck by timber at Viggers' timber yard, Geoffrey Harper, 30, of, Georgetown-road, Georgetown, suffered a probable…
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