Five Injured Car's Dash Into Crowd
SYDNEY, Sunday:—Out of control, a motor car yesterday smashed into two other cars, dashed into a crowd of people and injured five,…
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Soldiers Injured in Car Smash Sydney
A member of the 2nd A.I.F. Reg Gillard (27), of Newcastle, and Miss Joan Hawkins, of Newtown, were seriously injured in a collision between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Car Crashes Into Post Five People Injured SYDNEY
George Miller (47), of Roseville, and four others, including two women, were injured when a motor car swerved off the road and crashed into a telephone…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Constables Injured When 22 Pistol Is Fired Darwin
Two were injured last night when an automatic 22 pistol they were examining was accidently discharged. They are Constables Kevin McCaffrey…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Mysterious Accidents To U.S. 'Planes WASHINGTON
A series of accidents to the 'planes of the aircraft-carrier Ranger (14,500 tons), six of which have crashed or been damaged recently, has prompted…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Passengers Injured West Maitland
Police are inquiring into an incident which occurred as the Glen Innes mail was passing through Branxton. A passenger was cut on the face…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Canadian Governor-General Injured in Fall OTTAWA
The Governor-General (Lord Tweedsmuir) fell backwards in his room to-day and sustained concussion. He was unconscious for an hour, but his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Car Cap Prevents Fire and Accidents
A novel type of cap for petrol tanks, which was invented by Mr. F. Roberts, of Sydney, and which he claims will prevent fire and explosions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Collision With Truck
James Layton, son of Mr. O. Layton, of Wyrallah-road. received facial injuries, concussion and shock when the bicycle he was riding at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Airliner Forced Down In Flames Piolts Skill: No Casualities Petrol Line Severed In Collision With Eagle MELBOURNE
WITH flames roaring from the starboard engine, and some of the 11 passengers screaming with fright, the Douglas airliner, Bungana, made a forced landing near Dimboola, 200 miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lorry Driver Fined Failed To Stop After Accident KYOGLE
For having failed to stop after his lorry had struck and killed a calf on the Kyogle-Woodenbong road on December 11, Gerald John Thomas Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidental Death Crushed by Motor Lorry Coraki
At the Coraki Court House, an inquest was held concerning the death of William Joseph Enriglit (35), a married man. On January 31, Enright,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Too Many Road Accidents and Too Much Carelessness
Col. Bruxner, Minister for Transport, declares that not until there is more courtesy on the roads will the accident rate be substantially reduced. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Solicitor's Death Car Accident Near Tenterfield
Opinion that death was due to a blow on the solar plexus from the rim of the steering wheel, aggravated by the heat of the day and a blow on the head from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coroner Hears Story of Fatal Burning Accident
The story of a fatal burning accident in which Neville Lesleighter, two and a half years, of Clothier's Creek, was the victim, was told to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. Desmond McGANN Accidental Death in New Zealand
Further particulars have come to hand regarding the accidental death in New Zealand, on January. 18, to Mr. Desmond McGann, son of Mr. and…
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Mrs. R. M. Mitchell, of Coolangatta suffered a fracture of the right forearm and abrasions to the right shin when a piece of furniture fell on her…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hearing Adjourned Sequel to Accident in Ballina Ballina
After a hearing which lasted for five hours a charge against Richard Henry Felsch, apprentice mechanic, of Ballina, that he drove a motor car in a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidentally Killed on Service
LONDON, Thursday:—Chief Petty Officer c. E. D. Baldwin, whom the King decorated with the D.S.M. on December 19, was accidentally killed…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cyclist Injured
George Palmer, laborer, residing at River Street, Murwillumbah, sustained contused and lacerated wounds to the forehead, abrasions to the left leg and…
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