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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

624 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 5 of 32

Four Injured In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 February 1953 · page 6

Four persons suffered minor injuries and a car was wrecked in a collision between it and a motor-lorry on New England…

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Picnic Ferry Sinks 130 Escape Drowning

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday.—More than 130 Ukrainian men, women and children escaped drowning when the Yarra ferry Mississippi capsized and sank at…

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Fatally Injured In Fall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 2

GRAFTON, Sunday.—A carpenter who fractured his spine in a 40ft. fall yesterday died in Grafton Hospital…

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Man Drowned In River At Cooma

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 9 February 1953 · page 4

SYDNEY.—A New Australian was drowned while swimming in the Murrumbidgee River near Cooma…

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Cyclist Injured

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 9

Percy Rayfield, 21, of The Boulevard, Toronto, had his right leg fractured when his motor cycle…

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Five Of Lifeboat Crew Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 10

LONDON, Tues. (A.A.P.) —A lifeboat sent out from Fraserburgh, East Scotland, yesterday capsized in…

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Two Die In Car Accidents

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 1

Two men died from injuries suffered in car accidents yesterday. Milton Goodwin, 59,…

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Inquiry Soon On Punt Accident

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1953 · page 2

The Department of Main Roads will hold an inquiry into the accident in which the Stockton vehicular ferry…

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Cyclist Injured

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 4

Sheole Frederico, 19, of Hubbard-street, Islington, suffered probable internal injuries, a wound on the chin…

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Injured Man On Roadside

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 February 1953 · page 4

Percy Rayfield, 21, of The Boulevard, Toronto, was taken to Wallsend Hospital yesterday suffering from a…

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Accident at Colliery

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 12 February 1953 · page 7

Len Geat[?]es, 33, of Aberdare-road, Aberdare, loader hand at Aberdare colliery, suffered severe lacerations to the…

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Cyclist Killed In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 1

William Kenneth George, 20, of Brown-street, West Wallsend, was killed in a collision in Main-road, Young…

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Road Fatality at Y. Wallsend

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 6

Kenneth George, of West Wallsend, was killed yesterday evening when the motor cycle he was riding…

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Car Off Punt: Man Drowned

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 13 February 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY. — An elderly man was drowned early to-day when the car he was driving overran a punt and…

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Men Drowned At Entrance, South Coast

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.—Two men were drowned in New South Wales to-day. Leslie John Melville, 60, of…

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3 Boys Badly Injured In Explosion

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 February 1953 · page 1

HOBART, Friday.—Three boys were badly injured when they dropped a box of 60 detonators they were taking…

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10 Drowned

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 1

TOKYO, Feb. 15. A.A.P.- Reuter.—Ten fishermen were drowned when the American 8258-ton freighter, S.S. China…

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Trawler, Tanker In Collision

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 1

A 30ft, trawler was damaged early yesterday in a collision with a tanker about a mile off Nobbys…

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Horse Destroyed After Collision

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 5

A horse had to be destroyed after a collision in Latnbton Rd., Broadmeadow, early this morning…

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Cessnock Accidents

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 16 February 1953 · page 4

Two women suffered broken right arms in accidents at Cessnock at the week-end…

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