Girl Injured in Fall From Bicycle
Admitted to Dubbo Base Hospital on Tuesday night following a fall from a bicycle, Mavis Hill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hill of…
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Accidents, 1947
149 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 7 of 8
Latest Telegrams Newspaper Delivery Plane Crashes Near Muswellbrook Resulting in Men Two Deaths Plane Crash Fatality Sydney
Sydney. — A newspaper delivery plane crashed early yesterday morning near Muswellbrook and killed the two occupants. They…
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John, two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy Astill, of Manly and formerly of Peak Hill, was fatally injured when he was knocked down by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Narromine Man Killed in Road Accident
Peter E. Pich[?]ogin, of Narromine, was killed and Geoffrey J. Daigety, of Sydney, was seriously injured in an accident on the Trangie-Nevertire…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Remarkable Accident a Limerick That Came True
Here is a remarkable coincidence: Recently Barry Stanton, aged 11, won the limerick competition conducted in connection with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Man Killed Another Seriously Injured in Road Accident
A man was killed and his companion seriously injured when a utility truck in which the men were travelling turned over on the Nevertire-Trangie Road,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tragic Rifle Accident at Forbes
Whilst shooting crows on his property, "Yamma" Station, some miles up river from Forbes, Mr. H. H. Griffiths met with a fatal accident. It is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Collision with Truck Boy Injured
A young lad, John Leslie Hickmott aged seven years, of Morris Street, Gilgandra, suffered severe injuries on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Inquest Into Death of Young Married Woman Verdict of Accidental Death by Poisoning Returned Menace to Public Stressed in Unrestricted Sale of Apiol and Steel Pills Coroner Under Fire for Ordering Post Mortem Examination Which Doctor Considered Unnecessary. Accuracy and Source of Statement in "Times" Obituary Notice Denied
AT the inquest in the Wellington Coroner's Court on Monday last into the death of Evelyn Gladys Ivy Hasenkam (24), who died suddenly on October 15th last, only two months after her marriage, a verdict of accidental death by poisoning…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Speed Still Our Greatest Traffic Enemy New Move to Cut Down Accident Rate
I do not know of a greater human problem, confronting Parliament than, that of road accidents,” said the Leader of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Extra Traffic Police for Country to Reduce Road Accidents
Extra traffic officers for country areas, greater penalties for reckless and drunken driving, and a caution to careless pedestrians, were features…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Many Killed, Injured in Britain's Worst Fog London
Five persons were killed and 80 injured in three train smashes yesterday in fogbound London. It was fine worst fog of the year, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Amazing Escape from Death Accident at Level Crossing
The driver of a utility truck had an amazing escape from death yesterday morning when his vehicle was involved in a collision with a goods train at the Castlereagh Bridge level crossing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blinded By Car Headlights Driver Tells Court How He Tried To Avert Collision
In the Coonabarabran Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, a witness told the court [?]ow he swung his car hard across the road to avert an accident with another car bearing down on him, with its headlights full in his eyes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Swedish Air Force Plane Crashes on Italian Mountain 20 KILLED, 10 Injured Stockholm, Thursday
The Swedish Minister in Rome has confirmed the fact that 20 were killed and 10 injured when a Swedish Government plane crashed into Mount Scala, 3,248 feet, near Salerno, Italy. An airforce spokesman said that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Car Driver Hurt in Collision with Sulky
Mr. Jack Robertson, of Robertson's Rubber Works, Macquarie Street, suffered facial injuries when a car he was driving collided with a horse-drawn…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harvest Hands have Narrow Escape in Road Accident
Three men employed as harvest hands had narrow escapes from serious injury on Thursday last…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Six Dead 17 Injured in Lodginghouse Fire Philadelphia
When the search for bodies among the fire-scarred ruins of a lodging house ended yesterday, Police issue a casualty…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Orange Motor Cycle Fatality
A coronial inquiry into the death of John Dalton, 17, of Richmond, who crashed into three posts on the Bathurst Highway near Orange on Saturday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narromine Man Breaks Back in Riding Accident
When his horse stumbled and foil and then rolled on him on Tuesday morning, Mr. Douglas Ryrie of Euromedah, Narromine, suffered…
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