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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Fatally Injured Casino Show Competitor Casino, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 1

Gravely injured in a fall in a trotting event at the Casino Show on Wednesday, Roderick Sutherland (30), of Maclean, died to-day…

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Doctors Appeal Against Gaol Sentence Drove Car When Drunk Seriously Injured Woman Sydney, Friday night

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 1

In the Criminal Appeals Court to-day, Dr. William Bar-ton Jakin, who was recently sentenced to 12 months' hard…

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Railway Department And Level Crossings Wants Shire to Accept Responsibility For Accidents Engineer's Opinion

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 21 May 1938 · page 3

Whether the Railway Department is not humorous in asking Shire Councils to be possible litigants, judge and jury combined, and…

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Accident Victims Injured at Football

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 6

Roland Walsh (19), of Narromine, received an incised wound over his left eye while playing football on Sunday. He was taken by the Ambulance to Dr…

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Train Crash At The Dubbo Yards Three Men Injured Engines Collide Crews Escape But Passengers Hurt

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 1

A head-on collision between a goods train bound for Coonamble and an engine engaged in shunting trucks in the Dubbo…

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Motor Truck Capsizes Injuring Two Men Fourth Accident Within a Week

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1938 · page 2

When a truck capsized on Saturday, at Webb's Siding, two men were injured and admitted to the Dublin District Hospital…

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Head-on Collision At Dubbo Railway Yards

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 3

A head-on collision bell ween a goods train bound for Coonamble and an engine engaged in shunting trucks in the Dubba railway yards on…

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Frightful Injuries Caused Through Collision SYDNEY

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1

When Geoffrey Leonard, aged 20 years, was riding his motor cycle along Condamine Street, Manly…

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Woman Seriously Injured When Car Crashes

The Wellington Times · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 5

Catapultud through a side, window of a sedan car which crashed into a creek, near Mullion Creek on Monday, a woman was seriously injured…

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Injured Woman Dies Knocked Down by Taxi Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1

Suffering from a fractured skull, pelvis und arm, and a crushed chest, Dorothy Barclay (30), who arrived in Sydney from Bowral last night, died…

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Seriously Injured Motor Cyclist Crashes Head-on into Bus Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1

When Geoffrey Leonardt (20) was riding his motor cycle along Condamine Street, Manly, last night, he crashed head-on into a bus travelling in the…

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Unusual Accidents Men Hurt by Tractors Back-firing One at Mendooran and Another at Eumungerie

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 26 May 1938 · page 1

It is not frequent that accidents caused by tractors back-firing are reported, but two such accidents, of remarkable…

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International Plane Fatality. London

The Western Herald · Friday 27 May 1938 · page 5

Cleveland.—The transport plane enroute from New York to Los Angelos, crashed near here, killing seven passengers and three of the…

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Accident Victims Broken Arm

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 28 May 1938 · page 3

Mrs. Jack Carter, of Yarran, Narromine, was admitted to Dubbo District Hospital on Thursday suffering with a fractured left leg. While going down…

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Two Killed Three Badly Injured In Big Air Smash

The Wellington Times · Monday 30 May 1938 · page 1

In one of the worst disasters in the history of civil aviation, two men were killed and three were injured…

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Two Killed When R.A.A.F. Plane Crashed Cause of Accident Unknown

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 31 May 1938 · page 1

Two were killed and three injured—two critically—when an Air Force Avro-Anson crashed at the R.A.A.F. aerodrome at Greenhills,…

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Buckjumping Fatality Rider's End

The Wellington Times · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 10

William Williams, a buckjumpor rider of Wyalong, was thrown from u horse at Wagga and landed on his head, while performing in Thorpe…

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Neck Broken Buckjumping Fatality

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 5

William Williams, a buckjump rider of Wyalong, was thrown from a horse at Wagga last, week and land ed on his head, while performing in…

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Plucky- Golf by N Von Nida Following Car Accident At Newcastle

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 3

Playing with his head swathed in bandages, N. von Nida, who is well known to Gileandra and district golfers, returned net…

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Wounded Boy Not Expected to Live Accidentally Shot in Stomach with Pea Rifle

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 2 June 1938 · page 1

Shot in the stomach with a pea-rifle bullet, Gordon Green (16), who was admitted to the Dubbo District Hospital…

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