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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

799 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 12 of 40

Drink And Speed Cause Most Road Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY: Human failure—mainly through intoxication and driving at excessive speeds—was the chief cause for the increased number of road accidents resulting in injury and death in N.S.W. last year. These facts were revealed in…

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Man Believed Drowned At River Ford

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 1

SINGLETON, Sunday.—A station hand is believed to have drowned yesterday while he was fording the Hunter River on his horse…

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Injured Hiker Rescued In Rugged Country

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Sunday.—Residents and ambulance officers rescued an injured hiker in rugged country in the Megalong Valley…

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Girl Injured At Play Centre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 April 1949 · page 4

When she fell from horizontal bars at Homeville play centre yesterday, Elizabeth Davies, 12, of Aberglasslyn-road, Rutherford,…

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Five Slightly Injured When Trams Collide

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 April 1949 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A piece of panciling weighing about 100lb. was flung through the front compartment of a corridor tram when…

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Child Drowned In 15in. Water

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 27 April 1949 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A 20-month-old boy was drowned in 15 inches of water in a 2ft. high open tank at his home at Kingsway,…

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Fingers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 4

Maxwell Gordon Bailey, 25, of Grinsell-street, New Lambton, had two fingers on the left hand injured when they became caught in…

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Girl Accidentally Shot In Chest

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 2

Dawn Garth, 18, of Cardiff-road, South Wallsend, was accidentally shot in the left side of the chest when the charge in a rifle…

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WALLY Accidents Will Happen

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 28 April 1949 · page 16

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Jockey Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 10

SYDNEY, Thursday.—R. Skeleton had his collarbone fractured at Randwick this morning when a yearling he was exercising stumbled…

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Maitland and District Girl Injures Eye in Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 29 April 1949 · page 6

Daphne Kearney, 17, of George-street, Homeville, suffered a lacerated right eye when a utility truck in which she was a…

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Central Players Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 12

Central Newcastle will be without three of its key men when it meets South in the third series of Newcastle Rugby League competition at…

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Four Cessnock Miners Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 7

Three mineworkers suffered injuries to fingers in accidents in Cessnock district collieries yesterday. They were:…

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Deaths of Two Men Accidental

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 4

A finding of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. M. J. D. Austin, S.M.) in Newcastle Court yesterday at the inquest into…

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Accidental Death In Motor Smash

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 5

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Maitland District Coroner (Mr. F. R. Wood, S.M.) today at the…

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Woman Killed In Street Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 30 April 1949 · page 6

SYDNEY.—An elderly woman was killed and a man seriously injured in traffic accidents in Kingsford last night…

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Found Injured In Tram Cutting

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 2

Cecil Maher, 47, of Crown Lands, Jesmond, was found injured in the tramway cutting between Jesmond and Lambton on Saturday…

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Air-Beach Search For 2 Men Believed Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 2

A plane from Rathmines air base flew, along the coast and squads of police searched the beaches from Port Stephens south today for two men believed to…

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Smash Death Accidental

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 May 1949 · page 3

Laurie Esther Kelly, 22, stenographer, of Boyd-street, Swansea, had died from injuries accidentally received, the Maitland Coroner (Mr…

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Charges Follow Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 May 1949 · page 2

BRISBANE: Richard Ross Le Gailien (22) engineer of Sydney, today was remanded until May 31 on a charge that…

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