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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

4,885 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 245

In Yarra Three Children Drowned Pathetic Scene Father Dives for Bodies Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 2

Three children, two boys and a girl, were playing together on the bank of the Yarra, near Warner street Bridge, yesterday afternoon…

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Five Dogs Drowned They Were Chained Up Heavy Rain in North-west Moree

The Sun · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 2

When seven Inches of rain fell at Noila Station, 18 miles from Moree, five dogs which were chained up were drowned…

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Professional Accident Expert Puzzles Doctors and Nurses Man Who Makes a Hobby of Being Knocked by Motors

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1927 · page 3

Motorists and insurance companies here are wondering how often they have been "stung" by him whose profession is "Accident." They know they have been defrauded, but how…

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Three Injured Recovery Unlikely Terrific Motor Collision Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 1

Three persons were critically injured at Cheltenham this morning, when a motor cycle and sidecar burst into flames, following a collision with a…

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Sulky-lorry Collision

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 3

While being driven along canter bury Road Lakemba. early last night a horse attached to a sulky coillded with a stationary motor lorry…

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Collision at Wentworthville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 12

Two motor cars collided at the intersection of Station-street and Western-road, Wentworthville, late yesterday afternoon, and as a result four persons were injured. They…

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Motor Accidents. Two Persons Injured. Sulky and Lorry Collide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 12

Two persons were injure when a sulky travelling along Canterhury-road, Lakemba, came into collision with a stationary motor lerry at the corner of Dreadnough-street at…

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Horse Bolts Two Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 2

Two people were injured yesterday afternoon, when a sulky came into collision with a stationary motor lorry in Canterbury Road, Lakemba, and the…

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"Tired of Life" Woman Found Drowned

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 6

"I am tired of life," A silp of paper with those words written on it was found on the bank of the parramatta River early…

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Crushed by Wheels Motor Fatality at Brighton

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 6

When attempting to cross the road before the grand Terminus Hotel Brighton, on Saturday afternoon Lewis Staner of St. Kilda Was Knocked down…

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Taxi-driver Injured Blinded With Ammonia

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 9

A taxi-driver, Mervyn Francis Conlon, of Bundarra Road, Bellevue Hill, was the victim on Friday night of a savage assault by a passenger in his…

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Three Children Drowned Father's Grim Search Melbourne Tragedy Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 1

Three children, who had been playing on the banks of the Yarra near Walmar Street Bridge, Abbotsford, on Friday afternoon, were drowned…

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Thrown From Tram. Six Persons Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 12

Six persons were thrown to the ground, when the "dummy" of a cable tram struck an obstruction in Victoria-parade on Saturday morning. They were all treated at St…

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Cars Collide Four Injured Smash on Western Road

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 2

When two motor-cars collided on the Western Road, Wentworthville, yesterday afternoon, four people were injured…

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Smash in Fog Sydneian Injured Fractured Skull London, Sunday Night

The Sun · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 9

H. Hughes, of Sydney, one of a party of four undergraduates motoring from Cambridge to London, had his skull fractured when the car crashed into…

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Motor Victims 5 DEAD. 16 Injured Melbourne Week-end Melbourne

Evening News · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 6

FIVE people died and 16 were injured in Melbourne during the week-end, on a result of meter [?]sidents…

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Five Dead Melbourne Car Smashes Sixteen Hurt Man and Girl Nearly Drowned Melbourne

The Sun · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 10

Five persons were killed and 16 hurt in motor car smashes at the week-end. In addition a man was saved from drowning at West St. Kilda, and a young woman, who was caught…

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One Killed in Car Smash Brakes Seized Two Are Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 1

Lexton Beggs. 27, of North Carlton, was killed instantaneously, and Miss Tester was hurled into the fork of a tree when the car in which they were…

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Tasmanian Accidents Child and Miner Killed DEVONPORT (Tas.)

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1927 · page 4

Athol Burns, the three-year-old son of a minor, was run over and killed by a motor car while playing on the road near Penguin…

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Man Injured Collision With Tram

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 25 January 1927 · page 1

On Tuesday last, at 8.15 p.m., Mr. Alfred H. Roulston, of Bank-street, Meadowbank, was driving his car down the hill in Great North-road, Ryde, when he…

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