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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

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16 Travellers Hurt Truck Hurtles Rails In Freak Accident Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1943 · page 1

The city's worst railway accident for 10 years occurred early this morning, when 16 people were injured in an electric train and goods…

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Land Board Chairman In Serious Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 2 January 1943 · page 4

Involved in an accident in Sydney on Christmas live, Mr. George Connelly, chairman of land boards, is in Sydney Hospital in a serious…

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Unusual Accident Injured in Train

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 4

An unusual accident befell Mr. L. Bolman, of Penrith, when he was travelling in a train from that town to…

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Narrow Escape From Drowning Girls in Deep Water

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 1

What might have been a drowning fatality was averted by the timely assistance of three young…

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Free From Accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 January 1943 · page 1

The ushering in of the new year of 1943 passed off very quietly, there being an entire absence of rowdyism or…

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Two Cyclists Injured In Head-on Crash: Warning of Collision

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1943 · page 1

A youth and a girl were injured in an accident on the Old Dubbo Road last night in unusual circumstances…

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Riding Accident Young Man Critically Injured

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 8

As a result of being thrown from a horse last night a young man named Michael McCormick is an…

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Man Badly Injured in Fall of 35Ft

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1943 · page 1

Alfred James Henry (33), was seriously injured with he cra[?]sd from the roof of the Dubbo railway goods shed 35 feet to the ground below at…

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Women Scalded, Injured But Charges Lapse

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

Scalds and injuries, the latter occasioned by being struck by a stick, were suffered by two people from one address on Saturday…

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Young Woman Injured in Fall From Sulky

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 12 January 1943 · page 2

Eileen Mason (20), suffered concussion, shock and a probable fracture of the left arm when thrown from a sulky at Eumungeric on…

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Arthurville Man Injured by Bag Loader

The Wellington Times · Thursday 14 January 1943 · page 7

Mr. A. Frogley, senr., who has been in Bindawalla Hospital for some time underwent a second operation, and is doing as well as…

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Five Soldiers Killed in Collision. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 15 January 1943 · page 1

Adelaide.—One soldier was killed instantly and four others died later, and four were injured, when a one ton military lorry smashed…

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Tram Accidents Two People Injured Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 1

A number of people narrowly escaped injury when a tram and milk lorry collided at Neutral Bay Junction this…

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Fall From a Horse Man Injured

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 5

As a result of a fall from a horse, a man named James Lee, of Oakey Creek, near Burrendong, is now an…

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Fractured Skull Accident Near Geurie

The Wellington Times · Monday 18 January 1943 · page 4

A serious accident befell a man named James Ellis, on his farm near Geurie. He was admitted to hospital in a…

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Man's Finger Injured in Railway Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1943 · page 2

The top of a man's little finger of the left hand was removed while he was cleaning a locomotive at the Dubbo railway depot yesterday. He…

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GEURIE Rider Badly Injured In Fall from Horse

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1943 · page 6

Mr. J. Ellis met with a very serious accident on Thursday evening when he fell from his horse, suffering a broken collarbone, fractured skull…

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Boy Killed, Four Injured in City Collision

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1943 · page 4

Sydney, Friday: As the result, of a collision between a military truck and a tram at Mascot today Joseph Rossiter (11), of Mascot, was killed and…

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Burning Fatality at Gosford Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 3

When an oil stove exploded in a tent at The Entrance at a camping ground on Saturday, Mrs. Agnes Forman, aged 22 years, of…

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Motor Accident Near Trangie One Man Killed, Three Others Injured

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Monday 25 January 1943 · page 1

A sad [?] car accident [?]courre at C[?] Cr[?]ng, [?]out two [?] from Trangie, at about 1.3[?] a.m. on [?]day. Of the four…

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