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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1927

4,885 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 245

Motorist Arrested. Series of Accidents. Girl T[?]ally Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 15

After knocking down and fatally injuring a little girl in Old South Headroad, Woollahra. last night, a motorist continued on and narrowly missed a…

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Railway Guard Injured. Lithgow, Friday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 16

Whilst engaged in shunting operations at Cullen Bullen, William Frost, a tallway Ruard, was knocked down by a truck He was conveyed to Lithgow Hospital where it was…

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Two Injured Motor Cycle Overturns

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 19

Bernard Shannon, of Western Road, Wentworthville, and his wife (Jessie Shannon) were seriously injured when tho motor cycle and side car they were…

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Who Was the Driver? a Mountain Fatality

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 1

A motor fatalty in which culpability may be attachable to someone occurred on the Mountains on Sunday…

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Patient Drowned in a Waterhole Wagga

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 3

SHORTLY after the Wagga District Ambulance had received a call to Lockhart to transport a man suffering from pneumonia to Wagga, a…

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Boy Drowned Bathing with Father Grafton

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 7

Ross Hanigan, the seven-year-old son of Mr. E. Hanigan, a partner in the firm of Gerard and Co., was drowned in the municipal baths here, at 7 a.m…

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Nasty Fall Prince Injured Sprained His Wrist Hunting Field Accidents London, Friday Night

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 1

The Prince of Wales was among several victims of an adventurous hunt with The Quorn, says the "Westminster Gazette."…

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Eight Injured in Vic Motor Accidents Car & 'Bus Crash Police Heard Bump Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 6

EIGHT PEOPLE were injured as the result of motor accidents here last night. A COLLISION between a motor car…

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Injured by Fall in Freezing Chamber

Evening News · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 3

JOHN HOGAN, [?]7, laborer, of John stone-rd. Upper Bankstown. [?]pped and fell while working in the freezing-chamber of the Maloja, at…

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Two Injured Car and 'Bus Collide

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 7

Serious injuries were sustained by two occupants of a car when it collided with a motor 'bus in Hampton Street, Brighton, to-night. They were…

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Two Saved From Drowning Struggle in Dark Canoe Capsizes Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 1

After a desperate struggle in the dark, a young man succeeded in rescuing his two companions, one of whom was a cripple, when a…

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Injured Man's Fall. From Ambulance Stretcher. Bystanders Interfere

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 12

The manuer in which a taxi driver, fatally injured in a collision with a tram, fell from an ambulance stretcher, was related to the City Coroner's Court yesterday, when an…

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Averted an Accident

Nepean Times · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 1

A WARDELL, who is well-known as one of the finest riders on the Speedway Royal, showed great skill in averting an accident in the fourth heat…

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Painful Accident to South Australian Premier. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 16

The Premier (Mr. Hill) was on his way to-day to preside at a meeting of the general committee, which has arrangements in hand for the reception of the Duke and…

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Lockjaw Feared Actress's Accident New York

The Sun · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 7

It is reported that Mignonne Manger, described as a beautiful Australian actress, who came here to participate in a Broadway production, was…

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Rail Accidents May Cease Priladelphia

The Labor Daily · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 5

THE Philadelphia and Reading railroad to-day demonstrates an automatical electrically-controlled safety…

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Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 January 1927 · page 4

JUNEE. -- A visitor named Lucas was riding a motor cycle along the Marrar to Junee road when he had a severe fall. He was taken to Junee Hospital…

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Two Injured Car Overturns

The Sun · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 5

Bouncing oft the Main Southern road, after it had hit a rut, a motor car overturned and roiled 30ft. down an Incline at Liverpool yesterday…

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Man Severely Injured Storing Rabbits on Maloja

Sunday Times · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 2

John Hogan, 37, of Johnson's-road, Upper Bankstown, was severely injured when he fell 12 feet while storing rabbits aboard the Maloja at No. 10 wharf,…

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Play and Fatality Bullet Ends a Boy's Life a Murder Charge Follows

Truth · Sunday 9 January 1927 · page 14

Though he wept when the police came to his cell and told him that the boy was dead, Pierre Aitrien Moussel, an elderly French cook, betrayed no trace of emotion when he was charged this week at the Central Police Court with having last Monday…

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