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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1930

4,054 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 203

Sisters Drowned in Waterhole Fatal Rescue Effort Adelaide

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 1

A double drowning tragedy occurred at Robertson to-day. When Connie Eberhard, 9 and her sister. Margaret 11, were drowned in waterhole near…

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Car Overturns. Three Men Injured. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 12

After a long skid, a motor-car containing eight men overturned near Gisborne to-day. Ernest Rosenthal, 40, taxi-cab driver, of Thornbury, suffered a compound fracture of…

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Porter Killed. Run Over by Train. Fatality at Central Station

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 12

While crossing the railway lines between Nos. 19 and 20 platforms at Central Railway Station last night John Fry, aged 58 years, a parcels porter, was run down and killed by an…

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Heads Smashed One Dies After Collision Blazing Wreckage Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 15

Roland Kirk, aged 26, of Yarra-street, Abbotsford, who was among the seven people injured in a collision between a motor cycle and a motor car on the…

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Sisters Drowned. In a Waterhole. Mother in Hospital. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 12

While their mother, Mrs. R. Eberhard, of Robertstown, was an inmate of the Memorial Hospital with a baby girl two days old. Connie and Margaret Eberhard, aged 9 and 11…

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Seven Injured. Car Collides with Cycle. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 11

Seven persons were injured, three seriously, when a motor car and motor cycle and sidecar collided on the Melbourne to Bendigo road, between Digger's Rest and Keller, to-night…

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Boxing Show Council Grants Permission Help for Injured Footballer

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 6

Messrs. Denley and Fairweather approached Granville Council on Tuesday evening with a request that permission be granted for the holding of, a boxing…

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Screaming Burned to Death Factory Fire Six Others Injured Melbourne

The Sun · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 13

Seven men. including three firemen and an officer of the Fire Brigade were severely burned in a fire at 11-15 a.m. to-day in…

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Hysterical Girl Liverpool Accident Car and Motor Cycle

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 17

Failing, it is stated, to notice the tail light, the driver of a motor cycle crashed into the rear of a stationary car at…

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Week-end Motor Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 16

After analysing the various factors involved in the numerous motor accidents at week-ends, the N.R.M.A. Safety Department concludes that the relatively…

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Accident on Steamer

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

Frank Riley, of Adolphus-street, Balmain, was working on the French steamer Commissaire Ramel at No. 4 Wharf, Circular Quay, to-day, when he slipped…

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Unusual Accident

Evening News · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 5

When he was bumped on the back of the legs by a bale of wool which was being wheeled through a room at the Federal Stores, Day-street, City, to-day,…

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Surfing Accident. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 12

While surfing at Yamba yesterday Charles I. Imeson, a well-known Grafton business man, dived into a breaker in shallow water and hit his head against hard sand. He…

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Speeding Motor Cyclists Warned by Coroner Too Many Accidents

The Labor Daily · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 1

At the conclusion of the inquest yesterday on Alfred Oliver Motton. 24 who was accidentally killed in a collision between a motor-cycle and…

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Fred Bentley Injured in Collision

The Sun · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 3

Mr. Frederick Bentley, the popular comedian, who is now playing in "The New Moon" at Her Majesty's Theatre, was badly bruised and shaken…

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One Dead, Others Injured Car-cycle Collision Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

Late last night a car and motor cycle collided near the Diggers' Rest, with the result that one man was killed and several injured…

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Collision at Cabramatta

The Biz · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

On New Year's night a motor cycle ridden by Neville Fenton, with Frank Cundy on the pillion seat, collided with a suiky containing Mr. and Mrs…

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Collision at Hurstville

The Propeller · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 6

Last Sunday evening Herbert J. Pearce, of Cronulla, was driving a motor car along Forest Road, Hurstville, and when near the intersection of…

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Motor 'Bus in Collision

The Propeller · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 7

Yesterday morning a Mortdale-Punchbowl motor 'bus came into collision at the intersection of Mort's Road and Crump Street, Mortdale, with a motor…

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Motor Accidents. Cyclist Fatally Injured. Wollongong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 14

A motor bicycle ridden by Ernest Cleall 33, labourer, of Campbell-street, Wollongong, crashed Into the rear of a motor lorry in Crown-street, Wollongong, this morning, with…

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