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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1931

2,746 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 138

Duce Not "Hit-run Demon" Vanderbilt Explains Accident Los Angeles

Evening News · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 1

"I TOLD the story, not as an indictment, but merely as an interesting dramatic incident in the life of a great man" So said Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt, jun., to-day, referring again to the…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Cootamundra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1931 · page 10

Yesterday evening a motor car struck the Money Money bridge, a couple of miles on the Cootamundra side of Coolac, crashed through the railing, and fell into the creek. The…

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H. G. Alderson Injured in Boat Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 8

Mistaking the hurricane lamp on a fishing-boat for the pilot light on Spit bridge, a launch crashed into a rowing-boat under the bridge last night,…

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Car Driver Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 17

When a motor car which he was driving [?]turned after colliding with another car [?] the corner of Darley-road and Albioin-street. Randwick, last night, Vincent Lee…

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Drowned In Dam GOULBURN

Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 1

While swimming in a dam at his residence near Dalton. Daniel Selwyn Bush, 28, collapsed in shallow water. His companions vainly endeavored to…

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Lorries Collide. Seven People Injured. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 17

Seven people were injured, five of them being members of the one family, when two lorries travelling in the same direction collided near The Rocks, about three miles from…

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Dredge Nereus Founders Off Launceston. Captain and First Officer Drowned

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 9

The bucket-dredge Nereus, which left Eden on Tuesday, last week, for Uiverstone, in tow of the tug St. Olaves, foundered off Low Head (Launceston), on Thursday morning last. Captain Keith Fitgerald (Master), and Chief Mate H. M…

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The Ruins of Napier How the Homeless and Injured Were Provided For

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 25

EMERSON-STREET, AFTER THE EARTHQUAKE, BUT BEFORE THE FIRE. THE RUINS OF THE MASONIC HOTEL. The Camp in Nelson Park, Napier. The remarkably good order maintained by the sufferers by the earthquake was one of the features of the disaster. The authorities very quickly…

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Safety Before "Stuntability" Many Air Accidents Avoidable? Stable Plane

Referee · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 22

"BEFORE the aeroplane becomes university popular, manufacturers must make a material improvement in safety, At present they…

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Only an Accident Short Story

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 18 February 1931 · page 49

WITH only five rupees in a tattered pocket Jim Scanlan felt he hated Colombo. "Escape—escape back to Australia!" He would give anything to get away. But no—he paused at…

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Cyclist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 13

Harry Ducie, 23, a clerk, of Waracre-street, Lane Cove, suffered concussion and severe lacerations to the head, in a collision in Burns Bay-road, Lane Cove, yesterday,…

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Woman Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 10

Mrs Ada Williams, 53, of Gurner-street, Paddington, suffered a fractured skull when she was struck by a motor lorry as she was crossing Glenmore-road, Paddington,…

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Harbor Collision Stassfurt v. MILLIMUMUL

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 9

The hearing was concluded yesterday by Mr. Justice Halse Rogers, sitting in Admiralty jurisdiction, of the claim for £3000 damages by the…

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Bus and Van Guildford Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 13

When the Parrammatta-Fairfield bus collided with a motor van at the intersection of Woodville-road and Rawson-road on Thursday, two passengers…

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Drowned at Bourke Parramatta Resident?

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 1

Parramatta police are enquiring for the relatives of a young man who was drowned in the Darling river at Bourke on. February 11…

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Man Killed Liverpool Collision Neck Broken

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 13

In a, collision between two motor cycles, a man was killed near Liverpool on Friday night. Riding a motor cycle along the…

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Struck by Car. Two Women Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 10

After they had alighted from a bus in Anzac-parade, Kensington, last night and had walked from behind the vehicle, two women were struck by a motor car, one of them being…

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Hooker As 12th Ready To Replace Injured Bewler

Evening News · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 2

Some [?] has been expressed at the State selectors choice of the Mosman bowler. Halford Hocker, as 12th man in the team to meet the West…

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Dangerous "Cigarette." Man Injured by Explosion. RICHMOND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 February 1931 · page 10

Arthur McKenzie was walking along the Londonderry-road and picked up what he thought was a cigarette. He attempted to light up, and when the "cigarette" would not…

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