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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Accidental Drowning

The Biz · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

At the inquest of the drowning of Melville J. Rossiter, in Prospect Creek at Carramar, on January 22, a verdict of accidental drowning…

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Collision at Kogarah. Motor Cyclists Injured

The Propeller · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

When a motor cycle and a motor truck collided at 8 o'clock this morning at the intersection of Rocky Point Road and Prince's Highway, Kogarah, the…

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Collision at Arncliffe

The Propeller · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

A collision occurred on Saturday at the corner of Forest Read and Barden Street, Arncliffe, between a motor car driven by Douglas Hughes, of…

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Collision at Ramsgate

The Propeller · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

Last Sunday afternoon a motor car driven by Sarah Pemberton, of Ramsgate, came into collision with another ear driven by Cyril Walter Jones, at…

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Woman Found Injured

The Propeller · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

Mrs. Madge Harkness, 42, of Redfern, was found unconscious, suffering from a broken jaw and serious facial and scalp wounds, in the gutter in…

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Casualties. Child Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 10

Valerie Pickering, aged seven years, of Belmore-avenue, Belmore, was seriously injured last night when she was struck by a bicycle near her home. She was carried into the home…

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Three Drowned. Tragedy on Farm. PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 9

Two men and a boy were drowned on a farm near Shackleton, 115 miles east of Perth. They were H. V. Elliott, 44, farmer, Allen Elliott, 12, his son, and L. G. Doggett, 30, a…

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Cars Collide. No One Seriously Injured

The St George Call · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 1

When two cars had a head-on collision in Ramsgate Avenue, Ramsgate, about 6. p.m. on Sunday night, the occupants of the cars escaped serious…

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Car's Wild Career After a Collision. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 9

A man and two women had a remarkable escape from serious injury when a car in which they were travelling collided with a van, leapt over an embankment, crashed through a…

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Constable Injured in Bunning Fight. Three Arrests Made

The St George Call · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 2

Following a series of complaints that certain goods have been missing when goods trains reached their destinations, a Railway Detective named…

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Train Smash Guard Injured Cattle Killed Lithgow

The Sun · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 3

When four trucks and two bogey oil tanks on a goods train, travelling between Lithgow and Wallerawang, became derailed…

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Injured Woman Lies Unattended for Seven Hours PERTH

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 10

Mrs. Mary Smith, 58, widow, of Subiaco, lay in the street for seven hours with a broken leg before she was found, at 5 o'clock this morning, by a constable coming off duty. She…

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Car's Plunge From Pier into Sea[?] Grazier and Woman Drowned. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 9

A motor car was driven over the end of the pier at Mordialloc about midnight on Wednesday, and plunged into the sea. The driver was drowned in the car, and a…

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Accidents of the Week. Crash at Blakehurst

The Propeller · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 4

Having changed a tyre on a motor car in Prince's Highway, Blakehurst, early yesterday morning, Eric Watson, 30, of Neutral Bay, and Allan Gilford,…

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Sulky Accident

The Biz · Friday 5 February 1932 · page 1

Master Reg West and a young girl were seriously injured in an accident at Smithfield on Sunday last. The horse bolted and the occupants…

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Saved Drowning Girl

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 6

FRED WARD, deck-hand of the ferry Karabella, who yesterday dived to the rescue of Beryl Bobrinski (26), who had fallen overhoard after…

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Electric Jug Scalding Fatality

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 1

The overturning of an electric jug of boiling water was the cause or severe bodily injuries to Vilma Mavis Clegg (18 months), which…

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Casualties. Cyclists Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 15

Thomas Burns, 16, of Marama-road, Earlwood, suffered a fractured thigh, and John Hyde, 16, wno lives in the same street, suffered burns to his hands and concussion, when…

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Injured in Smash

The Sun · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 2

In a crash between a car and a motor cycle and sidecar, at the intersection of Crown and Campbell streets, this morning, Victor Anforth…

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Sequel to Collision. Bathurst

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1932 · page 14

In the District Court, before Judge Thomson, Mary Jane Fowler was awarded £10 damages in an action she brought agaist Ernest Roy Farrell, of Molong, in respect of…

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