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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

2,762 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 139

Accidents of the Week. Two Hurt in Street Smash

The Propeller · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 4

Struck by a motor-cycle in Prince's Highway, Rockdale, on Tuesday night, Mrs. Phoebe Healey, 54, of Harrow Road, Kogarah, was knocked down and…

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Farmer's Leg Is Shattered Gun Accidentally Explodes

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 1

TAMWORTH, Thursday. -- Albert Edward Jackson (29), farmer, of Attunga, fox shooting to-day, was sitting on a log with a mate awaiting…

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Help for the Motorist in Case of Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 6

In the case of a foot-passenger being injured, the motorist should ascertain: -- (1) The position of the pedestrian and his…

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His Arm Was Flayed Painful Remedy for Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 9

For nearly two hours yesterday, Charles John Shelley (37) sat in a cubicle at Sydney Hospital while a nurse, with a…

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Blair Discharged Cabramatta Accident

The Biz · Friday 13 May 1932 · page 6

Arising out of the motor cycle accident at Cabramatta many months ago John William Blair was before Liverpool Court on Friday last, on…

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Motor Driver Injured. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 May 1932 · page 17

Mr. Milton D. Chalker, of Moree, left to drive alone to Inverell yesterday to take a party of nurses who had been sitting for examination at Glen Innes, and were…

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Mother Sees Her Child Fatally Injured Singleton

The Sun · Saturday 14 May 1932 · page 3

Valerie May Muller, the four-year-old daugther of Mr. and Mrs. J.J. Muller, of Doyle-street, was killed in front of her parents' residence this…

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Infant's Death Inhaled Wool From Shawl Unusual Accident a Case That Was Pending

Nepean Times · Saturday 14 May 1932 · page 1

Isobel Jean Small, aged nine months, died at Durham Farm, Llandilo, on Saturday last in unusual circumstances. Evidence…

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Collision with Car Cyclist Badly Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 5

Colliding with a motor car at the corner of Clovelly Road and Beach Road, Clovelly, about 12.20 a.m. yesterday, Leslie Raymond Hannah, 29,…

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Wallsend in the Lead Adamstown Goes Down, 3-0 Watt Injured Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 8

Wallsend ran true to form when they dished Adamstown by three goals to nil in the State Soccer League competiton at Wallsend…

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Strange Shooting Accident. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 10

James Harris, while shooting rabbits with a companion from a motor cycle and side car, received a bullet in his ankle. The men were seated, one on the cycle and the other in the…

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Casualties. Motorists Drive on After Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 May 1932 · page 6

James Moody, of Langley-lane, East Sydney, suffered injuries to the scalp early on Saturday morning, when he was knocked down by a motor car in William-street, city The…

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Injured at Powerhouse

The Sun · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 5

Percy Neugham, 33, painter, of Francis-street. Leichhardt, was injured at the Bunnerong powerhouse, to-day, when an ash hoist ran over…

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Collision at Bombala. Bombala

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 10

A head-on collision occurred to-day on the western side of the town, close to the railway yards, between the van of the mall contractor (Mr. Bray), of Bibbenluke, and Groves Bros.'…

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District Court. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 6

Arising out of a collision between a taxi cab, in which plaintiffs were passengers, and a motor car at the corner of New South Headroad and Manning-street on November 7,…

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Into Tree 'Plane Crashes at Bargo 'Drome Two Injured

The Sun · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 7

ALEC CAMPBELL and Hugh Shoulderham were injured this afternoon, when their aeroplane crashed into a tree on…

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Woman Injured. by Pursuer of Thief. £75 Damages Awarded. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 May 1932 · page 10

When pursuing a thief in the city on December 18, John Antony Fitzgerald, an employee of G. J. Coles and Co., Ltd., knocked down Mrs. Florence Galvin. Mrs. Galvin…

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Man and Wife Injured Car-lorry Collision

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 7

A HUSBAND and wife were badly injured when the car in which they were riding collided with a motor lorry laden with timber on the…

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Casualties. Traveller Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 12

Richard Quinton, 49, commercial traveller, of William-street, Balaclava, is believed to have fallen from a window of the Great Southern Hotel in George-street, yesterday…

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Injured by Bursting Gun

The Sun · Wednesday 18 May 1932 · page 5

BROKEN HILL, Wednesday.-- Charles Maletto, of South Broken Hill, when shooting at birds with a single-barrel gun in a garden at…

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