Straying Stock Cause Accidents
Straying stock on Newcastle district roads were a continuous threat to motorists and caused a large number of accidents…
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Accidents, 1949
799 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 15 of 40
Launch Goes On Bar; Three Men Drowned
BRISBANE, Wednesday—Three married men were drowned early to-day when the 27ft. launch Maybe was swamped and smashed to…
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The driver and a passenger were injured yesterday when their car overturned on Scotch Creek-road, Miller's Forest…
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Reginald Armit, 30, of Denison-street, Hamilton, who was injured in a motor-cycle accident at Broadmeadow on May 8, died in Royal…
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Three men were injured when a motor-car and a military vehicle collided on the New England Highway at Lochinvar last night. The…
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Leslie Cook (20) of Dickinson St., Charlestown, suffered a probable fracture of the right forearm, cuts to the right leg…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—A man who was hit by a train and lay in heavy rain for five hours early to-day, died in Marrickville Hospital…
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MUDGEE, Friday.—A man was killed and seven other people were injured, two critically, when a car and bus collided head-on on the…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Traffic was delayed early to-night while a tram was jacked up to release a women who had been tatally injured when…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—Allan Bruce Milcoy, of Malabar-road, Coogee, was to-day awarded £1519/4/ damages by a District Court jury…
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MELBOURNE.—A man was killed and five other persons were injured on Saturday night when a car and utility truck…
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LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.).—One man was killed yesterday and 16 injured—10 seriously—when lightning set off explosives in a tunnel at Pitlochry, which is part of a big North Scotland power scheme…
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A motor cyclist and boy lost their lives in separate road accidents yesterday morning. Two other people were injured in one of the…
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The death of an elderly man last night brought Newcastle's road accident toll to three fatalities this week…
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Two miners in the Cessnock district were injured by falls of coal yesterday afternoon. James Vallance (41), of…
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BROKEN HILL, Tuesday.—Two men were injured and 400 dayshift miners were stranded underground at the Zinc Corporation…
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Two adults and five children were injured by crackers last night, two of the children being admitted to hospital. Trevor Stair, 13, of Sturdee…
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John Leonard. 19, of Bailey-street, Adamstown, an apprentice fitter, at Broadmeadow Loco, had his right forearm fractured and…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—All buses and trams in Sydney will stop for two minutes from 2.45 p.m. to-morrow, to mark the funeral of a…
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HAIFA, Thurs. (A.A.P.): Seven Jews are believed to have been drowned after 30 immigrant passengers had been forced at gunpoint to jump into the water from an Israel-bound schooner…
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