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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

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

Two Drowned Holiday Casualties Wellington (N.z.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

Holiday weather was mixed, mostly fine but dull during t[?] day and light rain failing at night. There was the usual crop of minor…

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Carried Out Father and Son Drowned MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

A number of bathers got into difficulties at Chelsea this afternoon. The group comprised Leonard Hocking (45), painter, of Woodbine Grove,…

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Sydney Boy Drowned a Visitor to Dubbo, Dubbo

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

Ronald Keith Stenson (6), was drowned in the Macquarie River at Dubbo yesterday while paddling in the water with other children. Ronald,…

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Many Injured in Motor Smashes Country Collisions

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

A PARTY of Sydney people were in a motor car which [?] the Boys' Home, [?] yesterday. Four were admitted in…

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Head-on Smash Motor Cars Collide Four Injured Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

A serious head-on collision between two motor cars on the Maitland Road, about 200 yards on the Newcastle side of Hexham, to-night, resulted in four…

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'Bus Overturns Three Persons Injured Hit by Tram Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 7

Carrying six passengers, a privately owned motor 'bus overturned near St. Kilda Junction this morning. The driver of the 'bus. R. Thickens, of…

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Drowned with Son Father's Sacrifice Caught in Undertow Fourth Double Family Tragedy Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 1

THE fourth double family fatality of the holidays occurred to-day, when father and son were drowned at Chelsea…

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Tortuous Trip Through Flood and Bog Injured Man's Ordeal on Way to Hospital Rockhampton

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

WITH his right thigh fractured through a full from a horse, John Hornsby, 32, suffered inta[?] pain during a tortuous journey to…

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Motor Accidents. Two Boys Killed. Car and Cycle Collide. Singleton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 12

Two boys, Allan Eric Brown, aged 17 years, only son of Mr. Malcolm Brown; Jerry's Plains, and Douglas Simpson, aged 14 years, son of Mr. H. G. Simpson, Jerry's Plains,…

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Accidents at Broken Hill. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 12

Leonard Frederick Flack, 21, was admitted to hospital on New Year's Eve suffering from head injuries, a result of a motor cvcle and sidecar under his charge, colliding with…

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Constable Accidentally Shot. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 13

Constable Wilfred Ernost Read, 40, married, of Tambellup, who accidentally shot himself in the gro[?]n at Pingerup on Friday, died in Katanning Hospital this morning after an…

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Swinging-boat Accident. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 12

Mr. J. Baker and his two children, Jua and Jack, were thrown out of some swinging-boats at Stephen's Creek on Saturday, owing to a bolt breaking. The boy suffered minor…

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Two Injured in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 13

Two young men were injured in a collision between a motor-cycle and a motor-car in Botany Road, Mascot yesterday…

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Motor Collision. Two Cyclists Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 15

A collision between a motor car and motor cycle and sidecar occurred in Botany-road, Mascot, last evening, and, as a reult, the two occupants of the cycle werer thrown…

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Motor Accident. Collision at Camperdown

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

In our report of an accident at Camperdown betweeu a motor car driven by Alfred E. Hobson, of Croydon, and a car drivent by Arthur H. Albert, of George-street, city, it was…

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Drowned in Creek

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

While playing on the banks of Styx Creek. Georgetown, yesterday afternoon. Aubrey Fake. 7, of Chin Chin I Street. Jslington, fell in and was…

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Crack Footballer Injured

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 16

Roy Bent, the crack Norwood (S.A.) forward, received painful injuries during the week through coming into contact with a standard while riding on a parsing tramcar…

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Ankle Badly Injured

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 8

James Campbell (23), of Campbell Street, Cessnock, a titter at Bellbird colliery, had his left ankle an badly injured at his work yesterday that he…

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Victims of Drowning! Man, Girl and Boy

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 3

TRAGEDY marted a [?] on the ha[?] of the Molonglo river, when Mural Pho[?] Lodge, [?] into the water and was drowned…

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Girl Drowned. Bathing in George's River

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 15

Bathing in George's River on Monday afternoon, Norma Boland, aged 7 years, formerly residing with her grandfather at Cnnterburyraad. Bankstown, got out of her depth, and…

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