Snake Fatality Sydney
White Thomas Barrle was cleaning a downipe at his residence in the Kempsey district, a snake bit the little finger of his…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Accidents
Accidents, 1940
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Fatal Accident
On Xmas eve a car load of Manilla residents collided with a motor cycle on the Goonoo Goonoo road near Tamworth. The rider of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Premature Explosion Man Badly Injured SYDNEY
Charles Pollard, 60, engaged in road deviation works near Tarcutta, had his eyes almost blown out of his head and flesh flayed from his hands…
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William Boggs, a drover, of Burren Junion, was thrown from his horse while riding just before sunset on Monday night. The injured man…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Terrific Explosion. Two Killed: Five Injured. Gibbstown. Pennsylvania
At lest two persons were killed and five injured as the result of an explosion of 6000 lbs, of nitro-glycerine which destroyed a unit of the Dupont…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gipsy Moth Fatality Sydney
When a Gipsy Moth training plane nosedived into a mangrove swamp at Pelican Point, near Kumell this morning, the Pilot-Instructor, A. F…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Burning Accident. Victim Recovering
The friends of Mr. J Clarke, who was admitted to hospital last week suffering from severe burns to both arms, will be pleased in learn that he…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fatal Accident Youth Shot
On Sunday, while walking on the river bank near the railway bridge, at Narrabri West, William George Cuell. 17, was acidentally killed by a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cyclists Injured Sydney. Thursday
When a motor cycle rider, Reginald White, 22 and his passenger, Bessie Jones, 14, who was riding pillion, were thrown on to the roadway at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Found Drowned
The body of Ernest Hilton Moffat, 41 unemployed, was found floating in Sister's Bay, Drummoyne, last week. It is believed he has relatives at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Deaths in Country 65% of Accidents Carelessness the Cause
ANALYSIS of reports of rood accidents in the State for December and January show that more than 65 per cent of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lives Blighted by Accidents
Through road accidents in this State since December 1 last six children have been orphaned and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scalding Accident
Patricia Hardy, 5-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hardy, of Edward Street, was admitted to the Morre District Hospital this morning suffering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lives Blighted by Accidents (Issued by the Road Safely Council of of New South Wales)
Through road accidents in this State since December I last six children have been orphaned and from once happy homes they are now living in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Child Falls From Flat Critically Injured SYDNEY
Gertrude Lewisson, aged eight, of Bondi, was critically injured when she fell about 50 feet to the roadway from a block of flats. She was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car Overturns Five Persons Injured Narrow Escape from Serious Injury
A car load of people travelling on the Wee Waa road on Monday evening, had a miraculo[?] escape from death when their car, 17…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Sorrow of Road Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
In the accidents that have occurred on the roads of New South Wales in the last 14 days the following tragedies are recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →ACCIDENTS Fall From Horse Man Injured
Mr. W. Taylor, of Maitland Street, Narrabri, was riding a horae across Narrabri Creek bridge last Saturday afternoon (Feb. 24.), when the horse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mail Contractor injured
Mr. James McArthur (35) a mail contractor between Moree and Coobedah, is at present an inmate of the Moree District Hospital as the result…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Forest Ganger Injured
Mr. A. McDonald. ganger. employed by the Forestry Department at Terry Hie Hie Stale Forest, received a nasty wound in the lower part of his left leg…
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