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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

4,733 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 237

Fractured Thigh Cyclist in Collision

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 1

Sergeant Wells, of Eastwood, is extremely well versed in first-aid and last night his knowledge considerably relieved the sufferings of an injured…

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Aborigine Girl Drowned. Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 21

While swimming in the Macdonald River, at Glen Morrison, this afternoon, Millicent Saunders, an aborlgihal, aged 19 years, was drowned…

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Child Injured by Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 21

Cecilia Marks, aged six years, Wemyss-street, Marrickville, received abrasions to the face, arms, and legs, and severe head injuries yesterday, when she was knocked down by a…

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Boy Injured by Motor

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 4

John Greenshields, 12, of Remley Street, Lakemba, was knocked down by a motor car in Canterbury Road. Lakemba, into yesterday afternoon…

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Two Girls Injured by Cars

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 4

Cecilia Marks (6) was knocked down, by a motor car in Addison Road, Marrickville, yesterday afternoon. Canterbury-Bankstown Ambulance…

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Doctor Drunk Car in Collision License Suspended

Evening News · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 3

ARTHUR Macnaffe Burge. 48, a doctor, was fined £20 by Mr. M'Mahon, S.M., at the Central Court, to-day, on a charge of having driven…

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Two Batsmen. in Collision. Both Unconscious. Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 17

Playing with Glen Innes cricketers against the Experiment Farm yesterday. Allan Sterling and George Lloyd were batting. Lloyd hit a ball into the air. and he and his…

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332 Are Dead Motor Crashes in 1928 Over Seven Thousand Injured Appalling Figures

The Labor Daily · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 5

During 1923 the number of reports of breaches of the Traffic Acts and Regulations totalled 32,001…

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Randwick Accident

Evening News · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 2

The country performer Colara [?] at Randwick. Winter working on the tan track this morning he collected with the outer Picket fence,…

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Two Girls Killed. Willoughby Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 22

The denths of Alice Margaret Williams, 4 years of age, and Kathleen Ivy Williams, 2 years, who were run over and killed by a motor car in Penshurst-street, Willoughby,…

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Accident at Randwick

The Sun · Saturday 2 February 1929 · page 7

The lightweight rider. A. Williams, had a narrow escape from injury at Randwick this morning. If was riding Colara Lad on the tan, when the…

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Drowning

The Sun · Sunday 3 February 1929 · page 3

SPLASH With a scream I slipped and fell from the rock on which I had been standing into the green depths of the…

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Fisherman Drowned

Truth · Sunday 3 February 1929 · page 14

A PHONE message was received by the Manly police late yesterday afternoon that the body of a man, who is believed to have been fishing off…

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While Drinking Boy Injured by Car

Truth · Sunday 3 February 1929 · page 15

WHILE Joseph Mobbs, 12, of Baker-street, Carlingford, was drinking from a bubbler fountain on the corner of Church-street and Pennant…

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Two Injured Motor and Motor Cycle Collide

Truth · Sunday 3 February 1929 · page 15

TWO persons were injures and two children had a miraculous escape when a motor cycle and sidecar collided near the entrance to St…

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Cut off by Tide, Constable Marooned for Night with Drowned Man Man on Road "Given Lift in Car" Motorists Story Identifies Pictures of Williams Melbourne

The Sun · Sunday 3 February 1929 · page 2

There was a development to-night which seems to make still deeper the mystery of the disappearance of Leslie Williams, the Goulburn electrician. A motorist has informed the police that he is positive…

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River Fatality. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 12

Alfred Ernest O'Brien, 28, of Gulldford-road, Belmont, was drowned in the Swan River at Belmont yesterday. His brother and another man, who were standing on the bank,…

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Infant Found Drowned. Tenterfield

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 12

The infant son of Harold Leech, of Leech's Gully, wandered from his home. A search was organised, and the child, who was only two years of age, was found drowned in a…

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Batsmen K.o'd. Collision Between Wickets

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 February 1929 · page 2

GLEN INNES, Sunday. --Allan Sterling and George Lloyd, two batsmen in a cricket match, collided midway between the wickets, when…

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