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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

624 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 4 of 32

No Beds For Road Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 1

GOSFORD, Sunday.—Six car crash victims in the Gosford district at the week-end had to be taken to hospitals…

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Head Injured In Street Fall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 26 January 1953 · page 2

Roy William Harvey, 53, of Cleary-street, Hamilton, fell while walking in Cleary-.street on Saturday and struck his…

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Foot Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1953 · page 2

Allen Goodwin, 6, of Telarah-street, Telarah, suffered two punctured wounds to his cright foot using a garden…

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Woman Drowned In Hunter River

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 27 January 1953 · page 6

MUSWELLBROOK. — A young married woman was drowned in the Hunter River eight miles from…

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Worker Injured by Ladder

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1953 · page 2

Caught by a mechanical ladder at the B.H.P. works yesterday, Thomas Carmody, 53, of Howe-street, Lambton, had…

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Young Woman Drowned In Hunter River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1953 · page 1

Mrs. Wanda Ruth Devine, 25, of Mulga-street, Scone, was drowned in the Hunter River, eight miles south of…

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4 Injured When Car Overturns

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 January 1953 · page 2

Four persons were injured and one suffered shock when a car overturned after a collision at the corner of Young…

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Cessnock Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 28 January 1953 · page 16

Roger Gillard (55), sawmill hand, of Main St., Cessnock, had his right hand extensively cut when…

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Weaver Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

Mrs. Norma Seymour, 26, of Clark-street, Weston, had her right hand caught in a weaving machine at Bradford…

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Carpenter's Eye Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 4

Alfred Lane, 28, Love-street, Cessnock, carpenter at Aberdare Extended colliery, received an injury to an eye…

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Man Drowned After Fall From Wharf

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

James Morgan, 64, waterside worker, of King-street, Newcastle, was drowned at King's Wharf yesterday…

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Drowned Boy 'Afraid'

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1953 · page 7

SYDNEY, Friday.—The younger of two boys found drowned in a dam at the Ryde-Parramatta golf links…

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2 Children Drowned In Channel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 January 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—A six-year-old boy and his sister, aged 5, were drowned in an Irrigation channel at Merbein,…

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Girl Drowned In River

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 2

TAMWORTH, Sunday.—Pamela Jobing, 17, of Oxford-street, Scone, was drowned in the Namoi River, about two…

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Car Passenger Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 2

Jean Hamilton, 23, of Union-street, Wickham, suffered abrasions to the nose and shock when a car in which she was…

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Drivers Of Two Cars Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 4

Drivers of two cars involved in a collision at Lorn yesterday afternoon were taken by Maitland Ambulance to…

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Cessnock Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 4

Charles Harris (22), Vincent St., Cessnock, a wheeler at Aberdare No. 2 Mine, suffered broken ribs when…

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Accident Deaths Exceed War Toll

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 February 1953 · page 9

CHICAGO, Sun. (A.A.P.): National Safety Council said today that accidents in the U.S. during 1952 were four times greater than the toll of American dead in Korea since the…

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Ganger Injured By Train

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 February 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday.—A railway ganger was seriously injured when he accidentally stepped into the path of an…

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Cessnock Accident

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 4 February 1953 · page 3

Edward Trowbridge, 52. of Marlton St.. Cessnock. a butcher, suffered an incised wound to his left arm…

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