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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1922

2,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 134

Leg Broken in Collision

Evening News · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 3

A [?] occurred between a motor was and a motor lorry at the corner of [?]-road and Haig-avenue. [?] to-day. Charles Green, 65 a…

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Injured by Fall

Evening News · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 3

Harold Kinna. a visitor from Bathurst. fell heavily down a flight of states in Bubb's Hotel. at the corner of King and Pitt streets, yesterday. injuring his…

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Casualties. Wall Collapses. Two Men Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 11

While, a party of mon at the Moorcliff Eye Hospital, Miller's Point, were engaged in demolishing an old wall it collapsed, injuring two of them…

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Poisoning Fatality At Auburn. Sheep Dip Instead of Beer

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 22 February 1922 · page 1

On Saturday night—about 8 o'clock—a man named Frederick Ward, 62 years of age a widower, drank half a glassful of sheep-dip instead of beer, and…

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District Court. (Before Judge Cohen and a jury.) an Oxford-street Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 February 1922 · page 6

Hearing was concluded of the case in which Samuel Joseph Ridding, of 83 Farr-street, Rockdale, jeweller, proceeded against Percy R. Hall, of 488 Old South Head-road,…

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Six People Injured Serious Collision Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 5

A collision between a motor car and a Chinese gardener's waggon occurred on Brighton Road, St. Kilda, to-night. Six persons were injured…

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Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 9

A taxi-cab and a two-seater motor car, which were-proceeding in opposite directions collided near the Kensington tramway sheds at 11.20 last night…

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Two Girls Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 5

A pony, drawing the sulky in which two girls were driving along Parramatta Road. Ashfield, yesterday, bolted and crashed into a tree-guard. The occupants were thrown to the roadway…

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Boy Drowned at Burrowa Goulburn

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 6

I While bathing with his schoolmates in the Burrows River, at Yars, a 15-year-old youth. Neale Greig, was [?]zed with cramps and drowped. The boy's father…

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Port Hacking Fatality Evidence at the Inquest

The Propeller · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 1

The story of the tragedy that ended a fishing trip to Lilli Philli, Port Hacking, on February 11, when William James Hillman, aged 35, was drowned,…

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Seized with Cramp Schoolboy Drowned GOULBURN

The Sun · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 3

A boy named Neale Greig, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Nat Greig, of Burrowa, went with companions to swim in the Burrowa River after…

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Whirling Winch Handles Two Men Injured

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 5

Two men were in [?] different parts of the[?] of winches a [?] Percy Abr[?]…

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Struck by Winch Two Men Injured

The Sun · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 2

William Codner, aged 37, a waggon driver, of Reynolds- street, Balmain, was working on the P. and O. Co.'s wharf, Circular Quay when he was…

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Surf Fatality. Fireman Taken Out by Undertow. Coff's Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 8

Alex. McKinnon, a fireman on the steamer Kinchela, while surfing this afternoon, was carried out by the undertow and drowned. Efforts were made by the members of the…

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Woman Seriously Injured Said to Have Been Kicked

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 3

John Whitiaker was charged at the North sydney Court this morning with assauiting Elize Hacvey, at North Sydney, yesterday occasioning hot actual…

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The Injured Eye Claim for Compensation Employer's Liability

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 14

Parkes tells me that some twelve months ago he met with an accident that resulted in the loss of the sight of his left eye. The doctor has told the eye removed, and amy correspondent inquires whether he is entitled to claim compensation from his employer in respect of this accident…

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Midnight Crash Motor Turns Turtle Three People Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 5

Three persons were injured--one seriously--shortly before midnight last night, as the result of a collision between a taxi cab and a single-seater motor car in Anzac Parade, near…

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Car Overturns Three Narrow Escapes Mr. Frank Stuart Injured

The Sun · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 8

A motor car and a taxi cab collided in Allison-road, near Doncaster-avenue, Kensington, last night, with the result that the motor car was overturned, and…

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A Peculiar Accident. Held by Electric Current

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 4

A man named Perkins met with a peculiar accident while unloading a track of coal at Medlow Bath (N.S.W.) on Tuesday. The loose coal on which he…

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Run Over by Tram Accident in George-st. Man's Leg Severed

Evening News · Friday 24 February 1922 · page 1

Ernest [?] street. City, was [?] tressing accident [?] just…

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