Road Safety Accident Reduction
For the first time since road accidents statistics have been kept there has been a decrease in the figures during the first two, and possibly…
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Accidents, 1938
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Fatally Injured Man Under Steam Navvy
Yesterday morning, Leo Scullin aged 23, who resides with relatives at Michelago, and was employed on the Captain’s Flat railway construction…
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BRISBANE.— George Pollock (19) and Reuben Hopf (19) were killed when a truck and a motor cycle collided on the Bucca road, near…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Motor Traffic Accidents The Chief Causes
The chief causes of motor traffic accidents can be attributed to seven important acts, says the Dunlop Perdrian Bulletin:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drowning Fatality Near Nelligen
The recent heavy rains, resulting in the flooding of Ryan's Creek, near Nelligen, were responsible for a tragic happening on Tuesday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damages Claimed Butcher’s Shop Accident £1450 Awarded
Before Mia Acting Justice Monahan and a jury in the Supreme Court at Sydney on Wednesday, the hearing commenced, of a claim for damages by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Canoeing Fatality Life Lost in Shoalhaven
Tragedy overtook, a party of four Sydney youths who were holidaying at Marulan when they attempted to negotiate the upper reaches of the…
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MELBOURNE.— John Day, aged 15, was fatally injured in unusual circumstances during the Guy Fawkes celebrations on Saturday night…
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Residents of provincial and rural areas are being appealed to this year by the Road Safety Council to cooperate in the task of reducing .the…
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Kathleen Evans, aged 11, who has been staying with her guardian at Terrigal, went swimming yesterday with a number of other children, but…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Plastic Reflectors Help to Reduce Night Traffic Accidents
For some years the world has been searching for a solution of the problem of reducing the toll of the road during night hours. Thanks to science and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Drowning Fatality
TAM WORTH.— George Ferguson farmer, of Lower Meningh, and Alexander Parsons, labourer, of Warral were drowned in 12 feet of water…
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NEW YORK.— While going to a clinic for treatment seven crippled children and their car driver were drowned when the road caved in,…
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In Baltimore, U.S.A., there has recently been installed an unusual but very sensible traffic light system, near the approach to a bad curve on the…
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When a motor cycle tyre burst, causing the machine on which they were riding to crash into a lorry in Kingsway, Caringbah, this morning,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Fatal Collision
BRISBANE.— Ronald Duffield, Edgar Ammos and Timothy Doyle were killed and five others injured when a bus and a utility truck collided…
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Struck in the face by a small log of wood thrown up by a circular saw on which be was working at field on Saturday morning, Harry George…
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On Sunday morning the body of Mrs Estelle Mary Godwin, 59, of Undercliffe, was found in Cook’s River, at the rear of her home. She had been…
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The National Safety Council of America has advised the N.R.M.A. that for the first nine months of this year the traffic fatality rate in the…
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