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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1928

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Dentist Killed Motor Car Collision Woman Driver Escapes

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 5

Edward Arthur Godfrey, aged 33. dentist, of Miller-street, North Sydney, was killed in a motor accident at the corner of Belmont-road and…

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Cowra Trotting Club. Driver Injured. Cowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 20

The Cowra Trotting Club held its best meeting to-day. The attendance was very large. Over 70 horses competed. The weather was fine. Trial Handicap, 1½m.—Mr. A. E. Woods Graceful…

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Car-cycle Smash Man Seriously Injured Tamworth

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

As the result of a collision between a motor car and a motor cycle at the intersection of White and Carthage streets yesterday evening, George…

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Park Brawl. Man and Woman Injured. Five Arrests Made

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 18

A man and a woman were seriously injured in a brawl, in which a large number of persons of both sexes were participants, in Belmore Park last night…

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Storm's Havoc Three People Drowned Boat Overturns Many Windows Smashed by Hail

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 3

Vivid flashes of lightning, wind lashing heavy rain into fine mist, huge hailstones crashing through windows, and the harbor whipped up into small foaming rollers. Such was the intense nature of the terrific storm…

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Fifteen Killed 44 Are Injured Two Tram Smashes Strassbourg

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1

FIFTEEN people are dead and 34 injured as the result of a tram smash at Thionville. Runaway railway trucks crashed…

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3 Drowned Storm in City Wind at 50 M.p.h. Lightning Perils

Evening News · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6

THE storm, which broke over Sydney yesterday afternoon, and which caused, three deaths as well aa widespread damage,…

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Storm Takes Toll of Life at Rose Bay Three Are Drowned and Four Rescued Capsize in Cyclonic Gale Husband Sees Wife Drown While Waves Engulf Her Others on Point of Collapse

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 1

THREE people were drowned and four were rescued on the point of collapse when a ship's dinghy capsized at Rose Bay in yesterday's terrific storm. The three victims are still missing. One of them, the…

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Air Accident. Safe Landing. Only Slight Damage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 18

Captain H. T. Hammond, the pilot of the "Golden Moth" aeroplane, with his mechanic, was compelled to make a forced landing at Canterbury Racecourse yesterday afternoon…

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Wounded in Leg Javelin Throwing Accident Son Spears Father

The Sun · Saturday 11 February 1928 · page 6

During the progress of the junior javelin throwing championship of the Western Suburbs Amateur Athletic Club at the Showground this afternoon,…

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Nearly Drowned Mother and Son Pulled from Water Car in River Adelaide

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 2

"While proceeding, over A punt at Waikerie, near LenmarK, on the River Murray, to-day, a motor car, driven by H. Bringhurst got out of control,…

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Punters' Deal Jockey's Slip Meant Loss of Loot But Accidents Will Always Happen

Truth · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 3

ACCIDENTS will happen on the best of regulated racecourses, and when Frankie Jones so far forgot himself at Rosebery on Wednesday as to fail to weigh in backers of My Jack on the Tote tore up their tickets in disgust…

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Speared! Showground Accident

The Sun · Sunday 12 February 1928 · page 10

F. W. Button, of Epping, was speared in the right leg during the athletic meeting at the Showground yesterday by a javelin thrown by his…

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Motor Accidents. Dentist Killed. Collision at Mosman

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 12

Edward A. Godfrey, 35 years of age, was killed on Saturday afternoon at the intersection of Belmont-road and Bardwell-road. Mosman, Godfrey, who was a dentist, residing in…

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Fatal Collision. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 12

With a crash heard half a mile away a hire car and a taxi-cab collided at the intersection of Lonsdale and Exhibition streets, city, shortly after 10 o'clock on Saturday night…

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Five People Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 12

About 2.20 a.m. yesterday a motor car conveying several people from a party at Lidcombe was proceeding along Parramatta-road, Leichhardt, when it crashed into a telegraph…

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Drowned in Bath. Infant's Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 16

James Desmond, 20 months old, was drowned in a bath at his parents' residence. Short-street, Balmain, on Saturday. The child's mother left the house for a few minutes, and…

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Father and Son Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 12

While crossing Church-street, Parramatta, on Saturday L[?]ewelyn Thomas, 34, of Walpole-street, Granville, and his son, L[?]ewelyn Thomas, aged 3 years, were knocked down by…

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The Sun Stop-press Tunnel Fatality

The Sun · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 1

The name of the man killed in the tunnoi collapse at Killara this afternoon is believed to be G. H. Brown…

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Speedway Crash Two Riders Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 February 1928 · page 2

THERE was a sensational fall at the speedway Royal on Saturday night, when the fourth heat of the Castrol Cup was in progress…

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