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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1929

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Fatal Railway Accident. Evidence at the Inquest

The Propeller · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the City Coroner on Wednesday in the case of Edward James Rymer, a railway linesman, who was…

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Avoid Motor Accidents. Hints on How To Do It

The Propeller · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 10

Here, are a few hints worth committing to memory: -- In traffic avoid sharp turns, either left or right…

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Boy Accidentally Shot

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 19

GLEN INNES, Thursday.--Harold Yeatman (15), of Newcastle, who was accidentally shot by a companion a couple of miles from town on…

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Motor Accident After Wedding. Tocumwal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1929 · page 14

After attending a wedding at Tocumwal John Savage, James McGrath, and Ronald McMillan were motoring back to Mulwala when the car collided with a tree, and getting out of…

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Could Not Swim Drowning Fatality Albury

The Sun · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 6

A verdict of death by drowning was recorded by the coroner at the Inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Alwyn Kebblewaite,…

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Collision

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 5

On Monday morning a car driven by Mc Stewart Lee, jur. and another driven by a motorist passing through the town collided head on at Byrnes'…

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Fatal Collision

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 1

The district coroner (Mr A. Judges) hold an inquest at Katoomba into the death of Bramwell Oliver Vince, who was killed on the Great Western…

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Country News. Motoring Fatality. Katoomba

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 18

Returning a verdict of accidental death, after having inquired into a motor collision on the Great Western-road, on February 23, which resulted in the death or Bramwell…

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Accident on the Sydenham-botany Railway Line

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 20

[?]ING TO THE SUBSIDENCE OF THE EMBANKMENT FOR A DISTANCE OF FIFTY YARDS, THE ENGINE AND TWO WAGGONS LEFT THE RAILS AND OVERTURNED YESTERDAY MORNING…

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Fatal Shooting Accident. Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 18

Harold Yeatman, aged [?] years, w[?] accidentally shot by a companion on Sunday morning has died An operation was performed, but the bullet having lodged in a…

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Fatal Accident

The Sun · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 8

Frederick Hall, aged 24, of Wood-ville-road, Granville, died to-day at the Parramatta Hospital as a result of Injuries received through having…

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Shooting Accident

The Biz · Saturday 9 March 1929 · page 5

Mrs. Bob Randell, of Terminusstreet, Liverpool, was the victim of a pea-rifle accident under peculiar circumstances on Wednesday…

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Three Men Injured Car Skids Over Embankment

Truth · Sunday 10 March 1929 · page 1

PINNED when their car ran over a four-foot embankment after skidding in Parramatta-road, near Pendle Hill last night, three men were injured…

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Young Man Hurt in Collision Family Coincidence West Maitland

Sunday Times · Sunday 10 March 1929 · page 26

Howard Cecil Simmons, 21, of Telarah, is in Maitland Hospital, in a critical condition, as a result of injuries sustained in a collision between a motor…

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Accidental Death

Sunday Times · Sunday 10 March 1929 · page 6

Illuminate's fatal full in the High-weight, second division, was found by the stewards to be due to the gelding accidentally getting on to the heels of…

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Collision at Manly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 12

Eric William Waller, 21, and Richard Waller, 15, brothers, residing at Penrose-street, Lane Cove, were injured yesterday afternoon when their motor cycle came into collision…

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Cars in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 12

As the result of a collision between two motor carn at the intersection of Rodgers-avenue and Parramatta-road. Haberfield. Mrs. K. Kabmalsky, of Moore Park-road…

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Conductor Injured

Evening News · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 5

[?] Young. 25. tram conductor. of Gower-street, Summer Hill, was knocked down by a motor lorry to-day, when he attabted from at tram to ring the bundy…

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Girl Injured Katoomba Accident Katoomba

The Sun · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 5

Ruby Harrison, a young single woman, was admitted to the Anzac Memorial Hospital yesterday, suffering from there fractured ribs. She…

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Fatal Collision. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 March 1929 · page 13

Benjamin Saunders, the tramway mototman who was injured when his tram collided with [?]ailway trucks at Wooloongabbo on Tuesday night, has died…

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