Father and Son Drowned
Samuel Montagomery. (38) of Gosford, and his 15-year-old son, Donald, were drowned at Ettalong Beach on Sunday. They fishing in a boad…
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Accidents, 1940
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Forty-two Lives Lost In Railway Collision
Forty-two persons lost their lives when a single railway coach crashed had on into a two-engined Pennsylvania railway goods train at a crossing…
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Deaths in road accidents in this State have been increasing each week until at the end of July the position was nearly as serious as when the…
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Whilst crossing the Parker Street bridge on his way home from his office, Mr. N. Pinkstone, of Cootamundra, suddenly heard a whirring noise in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Many Lives Lost in Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Deaths in road accidents in this State have been increasing each week until at the end of July the position was nearly as serious when the figures…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peculiar Accident
While crossing the Parker Street bridge on his way home from his office Mr. N. Pinkstone, of Cootamundra, suddenly heard a whirring noise in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatal Car Accident
When a motor crashed forty feet down a gully ten miles from Canowindra yesterday, Mrs. Violet Miskell (55) and Victor Miskell (28) were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Terrible Accident
A frightful accident befell a young man, Mervyn Fensom, aged about 18 or 19, of Wamimbucca, on Monday, as a result of which he is now lying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General Serious Car Accident
As the result of a smash on the Tarago road on Thursday night one lady lies to Braidwood Hospital with a broken collar-bone, while a young boy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motorist’s Lapse Drove On After Accident
“There was no excuse for running away and defendant, moreover, showed bad manners.” Thus commented the P.M., Mr. M. J…
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Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I can…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Review of Road Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making the announcement a month ago. Now I can announce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brothers Drowned
Two brothers, Bertie Standen. 17. and Percival Standen 12, who resided with their parents at Lake Cargelligo township, were drowned in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kingston Motor Fatality
When a utility truck and a sedan car came into collision yesterday, at Kingston Mervyn Hawke, aged 18. of Causeway, was fatally injured. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Car Skids in Grave! Yass Residents Injured
When a motor car skidded in loose gravel and ran into a culvert on the Yass-Canberra Road in the early hours of Saturday morning, some Yass…
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LONDON.— Private Eric. Schiele, aged 23, of the A.I.F., died in a West London hospital after being knocked i down by a motor car last night…
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Two school teachers were injured, one seriously when a small car in which, they were travelling overturned several times near Bowning on…
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Harold Williams, aged 25, a milkman, was killed and six people injured when a motor-cycle and car collided near Goulburn. Williams was…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pilot Officer Drowned
When a New Zealand Air-Force Tiger Moth plane crashed into the sea off Auckland Beach, Pilot-Officer Robert M. Goldstone, 21 was drowned. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →[?] Graphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Tragic Burning Accident
BRISBANE.—Heinrich Wallet (91), Lutheran pastor, and his wife, Charlotte (83), were burnt to death in their home in Main Street, Laidley,…
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