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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 25 of 237

Fell From Train and Disappeared a Mysterious Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 2

Though a man was seen to fall out of an electric train between St. Peters and Sydenham last night, no trace of him could be found 10 minutes later…

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Motor Car Accident. Seven Persons Injured

The Propeller · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

A Kogarah family was concerned in an accident that occurred on the Great Northern Road, Five Dock, last Sunday, seven persons being injured. Mr…

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Explosion. Two Men Injured. Darling Point Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 14

As a result of the premature explosion of a charge of gelignite on a construction at Darling Point yesterday afternoon two men were injured, while one of them will…

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Three Persons Injured

The St George Call · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

Three persons were injured in : motor accident on the Prince's High way, near Engadine, early on Saturday morning, when the car in which they…

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Motor Fatality. Kogarah Boy Killed

The St George Call · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

Ivan Godden (IS), of Gray Street, Kogarah, was knocked down by a motor ear ill Prince's Highway, Kogarah near Gladstone Street, on Saturday…

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Cart and Pire Engine in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 14

A fire engine which was on its way to a bushfire at Gladesville yesterday. afternoon came into collision with a milk cart in Great North-road, Gladesville. The driver of the…

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Seven Men Injured. Lorry Overturns

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 18

Seven men were Injured yesterday afternoon in Bowns-road, Kogarah, when the motor lorry on which they were travelling got out of the driver's control after skidding…

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Seventeen Injured in Motor Smash

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--Seventeen men were injured, one seriously, when a motor truck carrying workmen from the Board of Works to-day…

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Tram and Lorry in Collision. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 14

With a crash which could be heard for a considerable distance an electric tram car collided with a motor lorry as the lorry was crossing St. Gcorge-road, Northcote, this…

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Trams Collide Three Persons Injured Brisbane

The Sun · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 14

When a tram car travelling to the Exhibition Grounds to-day crashed into another tram car ahead of it three passengers were thrown on to the…

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Western Sprinter Is Badly Injured Binnaway

Evening News · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 2

While Master York, winner of the [?] Cup, was being conveyed by motor transport to coonamble, for this week's meeting, he took fright, and crashed through the [?]…

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Motor Car Capsises. Three Persons Injured at Engadine

The Propeller · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

Skidding on loose gravel after a tyre had blown out, a motor car rolled over three times on the Prince's Highway at Engadine last Saturday,…

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Lost an Eye Gelignite Charge Explodes Two Men Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

One man was seriously injured and another received minor abrasions when a charge of gelifinite exploded in New South Head Road…

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Capsize of Motor Lorry. Seven Men Injured at Kogarah

The Propeller · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 6

Seven men were injured yesterday afternoon in Bown's Road, Kogarah, when the motor lorry on which they were travelling got out of the driver's…

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Injured Passenger Driver Liable if Negligence Can be Proved

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 10

Craboon wishes to know his position as a result of being injured while passenger in a motor bus. Answer.—If your injuries were…

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Agriculture Scheme for the Prevention of Industrial Accidents

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 3

At the congress of the Bureau of the International Commission of Agriculture, which was held in Paris recently, it was decided that inquiry…

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Taxi-cab Accident at Ryde

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 18

The car, which had been stationary, ran backwards off Delhi-road and rolled over and over for a distance of 40 feet. The driver and a passenger had remarkable escapes from death…

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Fatal Accident

The Propeller · Friday 1 February 1929 · page 1

As he stepped off the pavement in Prince's Highway, Kogarah, last Saturday afternoon, Ivan Godden (18), of Gray Street, Kogarah, was knocked…

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Drowned in Waterhole Tenterfield [?]

Evening News · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 1

The medal son of [?] afternoon A [?] was have organise and the child who was [?]…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 18

Vernon Grigg, aged 20 years, of Napier-street. Fitzroy, was killed when a motor cycle which he was riding crashed into the rear of a motor lorry in Nicholson-street…

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