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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

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Motor Accidents. Collision at Lane Cove

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 13

Charles Cheney, 22, of Dixon-avenue, Artarmon, received internal injuries yesterday, when his motor lorry and another vehicle collided in Burn's Bay-road, Lane Cove…

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Curious Fatality on Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

PERTH, Monday.--While repairing a tractor on a farm at Juradine, Victor Charles Smith, 36, farmer, accidentally knocked out a supporting…

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Casualties. Boy Drowned in Dam. Lithgow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 10

Donald Rimmer, 11, was drowned at Kandos ta the presence of two companions. The three boys were crossing a paddock belonging to Mr. W. Moss when Rimmer suggested a swim in…

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Head-on Collision. Motor Car Bursts Into Flames. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 10

Alter a head-on collision on the Sydney-road early this morning a motor car burst into flames and was destroyed. Albert Ashfold, who was driving the car,…

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Five Cars Crash Four People Injured Gosford

The Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 7

Four people were injured, father, mother and three children hung perilously in a car caught in a tree over a…

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Crowd Did Its Best Man Injured in Oxford St. Ambulance Late

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 5 January 1932 · page 5

Struck down by a ear in Oxford Street, yesterday, Edward Joseph Everett, 50, of Hornsby Road, Galston, lay unconscious…

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Dressing Room Echoes "The bigger they are the harder they fall." That's what the monkey said about the elephant's courtship. Drowning Championship Wanted, Says by Gum His Dissertation on Various Methods of Propulsion Explaining Government Stroke

Referee · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 12

SWIMMING is an art. Drowning is even more of an art, although no one has yet won a championship for drowning. There was one case whore a competitor would have won, only that he did not come tip the regulation three times before finishing the…

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Queenslanders Dogged By Accidents Go Down Fighting To Defeat In Sydney Outright Win Gives N.S.W. 15 Points

Referee · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 15

NEW YEAR'S DAY in Sydney has rarely been one for first-class cricket. It is associated with Tatt's Club at Randwick, and gathering of the clans for the Highland gathering at the R.A.S. But this year the powers that he allotted the Queensland match to the Scots'…

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Wrestling Accident. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 12

William Ahearn, 16 years, of Goulburn, broke a leg while wrestling with another boy in Mulwaree River…

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Crash in Trial Two Jockeys Hurt Accident at Randwick

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1932 · page 2

Two jockeys were taken from Randwick racecourse to hospital this morning as a result of injuries received,…

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Boy Drowned Christmas Day Fatality Brothers' Vain Efforts

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 14

Christmas Day was one of tragedy for the Baldwin family at Castle Hill. Four brothers went to Kellyville—to a waterhole known locally as the lagoon…

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Charge of Negligence Sequel to Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 1

A motor lorry and a motor cycle collided at the intersection of George and Smith-streets, Parramatta, on December 8. The cyclist was injured…

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Car's Plunge. Driver Seriously Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 3

A motor car got out of control in Alfred-street, North Sydney, yesterday morning, swerved across the road, smashed through a fence, and ran down an embankment. The…

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Jockeys Injured in Hurdle Trial

The Labor Daily · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 2

TWO prominent jockeys were injured at Randwick yesterday morning, and A. Pearce is in a bad way. He was riding Dal Lad, and…

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Train and Lorry. Collision at Level Crossing. PARKES

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 8

A train conveying empty trucks to Trundle collided with a motor lorry at a level crossing near Nelungaloo. The driver of the train attempted to pull up when he saw the lorry,…

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Motor Bike and Man Guildford Accident

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 10

Knocked down by a motor cycle at the corner of O'Neill-street and Stimson-street, Guildford, on Christmas Day, Albert Edward Hartis (40), of Waverley,…

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Recent Accident at the Vatican—message of Sympathy From the Apostolic Delegate

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 22

On hearing of the great disaster that recently happened at the Vatican Library his Excellency the Apostolic Delegate thought it well to interpret the wishes…

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Ban Last Race Pony Elvira is Destroyed Race Accident

The Sun · Thursday 7 January 1932 · page 9

Elvira, who broke down badly while competing in the Fourteen Hands Handicap at Victoria Park yesterday has been…

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Drowning Fatality. Boat Capsizes in Woronora River

The Propeller · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 2

A boating excursion on the Woronora River elided' tragically on New Year's Eve, when the skiff overturned and a man was drowned. The victim…

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Collision at Peakhurst. Three Persons Injured

The Propeller · Friday 8 January 1932 · page 4

On Sunday two motor cars came into collision at, the intersection of Hymen Street mid Belmore Road, Peakhurst, three persons being injured. They…

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