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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Man Injured by Falling Bar

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 2

Donald Mills, 25, lorry-driver, of Denison-street, Hamilton, suffered a probable fracture of the skull when struck…

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45 Die And 66 Injured In Three U.S. Plane Crashes

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

NEW YORK, Sun. (A.A.P.): Forty-five people lost their lives and 66 were injured in three plane crashes on the Pacific Coast yesterday. At Sacramento,…

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2 Hurt In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

A man and wife were injured yesterday when their car collided with the back of a bus on the Pacific Highway…

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Miner Injured By Coal Fall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 4

Nelson Widdington, 30, of Adam-street, Heddon Greta, a miner at Bellbird colliery, had his back injured…

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Accident Fatal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

George Victor Brough, 40, of Denning-street, The Entrance, who was injured at Berkeley Vale, near Wyong,…

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Ferguson Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 16

SYDNEY: West Indies bowler Wilfred Ferguson will undergo a medical examination today to…

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Accidents At Cessnock

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 16

Trevor Williams, 36, of Wollombi-rd., Cessnock, a machine man at Aberdare Extended Colliery, had his…

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Allies Bomb Zone by Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 3

TOKYO, Jan. 23. A.A.P.—The United Nations Command to-day said its planes bombed part of the Kaesong neutral zone last Thursday and probably…

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Child Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 1

CANBERRA, Thursday.—Michael Constantine, 10, of Kingston, a Canberra suburb, drowned in eight feet of…

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11 Injured In Accidents On Coalfields

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 3

Nine mineworkers and two other men were injured on the Coalfields yesterday. Ronald McCormack, 34, of…

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Ankle Injured In Fall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 3

When she slipped on the river bank yesterday afternoon, Eileen Edmonds, 17, of Carrington-street, Maitland,…

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Artery Severed In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 4

Alan Cottier, 35, of Jubilee-road, South Wallsend, suffered extensive lacerations to his scalp and a severed artery in…

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Passenger Killed In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 2

Araluen Colleen Donahoo, 20, student teacher, of Thorn-street, Toronto, was fatally injured when an ambulance and…

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Two Mineworkers Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 26 January 1952 · page 6

Harold Lane, 42, of Mount View-road, Cessnock a miner at Aberdare Central colliery, had his right leg lacerated by…

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Man Injured In Fall Down Step

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 3

Arthur Rees, 42, of Aber-dare-road, Cessnock, who fell down a step at the Bolwarra Hall on Saturday night,…

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3 From North Die in Air Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

There Newcastle people were killed when a plane crashed near Sandy Hollow on Saturday. There were—…

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Grim Accident Toll: 6 Dead In North

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 2

Road and air accidents have given Newcastle one of its blackest Anniversary Holiday week-ends on record. Already they have claimed a formidable list of…

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Man Drowned at Collaroy

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 29 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY. — A retired bank manager was drowned at Collaroy today, despite the combined efforts…

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Two Injured In Road Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 January 1952 · page 4

Two men were seriously injured when a car overturned on Government Rd., Weston, yesterday…

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Injured Hand

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 31 January 1952 · page 3

Neville Beckett, 23, of Elford-ave., Weston, a postal department linesman, lacerated his right-hand on…

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