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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 160

Racing Cycle Crashes Spectators Are Injured No One Killed Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 8

WHEN the bicycle ridden by the northern district professional roads champion, Edward Bennett, skidded in a cycling handicap on the…

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"ACCIDENTAL" Coroner On East Hills Fire

The Sun · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 13

The Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. Richardson Clark) to-day continued an inquiry into the fire which, on December 8, destroyed a shed and…

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Household Accidents

The Propeller · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 8

An extraordinary number of household accidents happen every year, and although many of these may be traced to carelessness, there are women…

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Accidents of the Week. Man Falls Off Motor Lorry

The Propeller · Friday 27 January 1933 · page 5

Leslie Carrington, 36, of Nell Street, Arncliffe, received terrible injuries when he fell from the back of a motor lorry, and was struck by a passing car…

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Lorry and Tram in Collision Five Injured; One in Hospital

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 1

Five people were injured yesterday when a lorry crashed into a tram in Enmore Road, Newtown. The control compartment of the…

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Tamarama Drowning Fatality Surfer Dived Under a Breaker to His Death Body Seen

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

A BICYCLE with its wheel locked, found at Tamarama Beach early yesterday morning by Constable McDermott, of Waverley…

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Speedway Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

"Pryke and I were travelling at about 60 m.p.h. and, rounding a sharp turn, his cycle skidded. I forced my machine to ground to try…

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Drowned in Canal Griffith

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

A young man named John Turner, 28, was found drowned in the main canal Inst evening. He was last seen on Wednesday at the local baths, and…

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Baker's Cart and Car in Collision

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

When the baker's cart on which he was riding collided with a car in Parramatta Road, Croydon, last evening, J. Emmos, 56, of Moody St. Rozelle,…

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Sea Cadet Injured at White Bay

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

White loading wheat on the British steamer Australia, at No. 2 White Bay, Balmain, last night, A. N. McFddgean, 17, a sea cadet, had…

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Two Injured Car Overturned in Gravel

The Sun · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

When a car in which they were travelling to Forster turned over on lease gravel near Stroud, this afternoon, William Johnson, 21, and…

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TRAM v. Lorry Crash Two Passengers Injured One Serious

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

SKIDDING on the wet roadway while proceeding along Enmore Road towards Enmore at the height of the storm early last night a…

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Accident with Electricity

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

While standing on a table cleaning an electric lamp shade with a damp cloth, at her home, Miss Freda Higgins received a severe electric…

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St. Marys. ACCIDENT

Nepean Times · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 5

While working at Balgay Cannery, Mt. Druitt, on Tuesday, Gordon Luxford, of St. Marys, met with an accident by which he lost two fingers of…

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Leg Crushed by Horse Accident in Mine Cebssnook

The Labor Daily · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 1

Crushed by a horse against a skip in Elrington colliery to day, Curwen Seaston, 30, a wheeler, of Anderson Avenue, Paxton, suffered a…

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Accidental Death

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

A finding of accidental death was returned at the inquest yesterday on the death of Thomas Cummins, 95, a well-known Methodist Church…

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Blaze at East Hills House "Accidental," Says Coroner

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 January 1933 · page 7

The burning of a cottage in Brillianna Street, East Hills, on December 8, was inquired into by the Parramatta District Coroner (Mr. H…

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Hot Shot Injured

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1933 · page 3

THE Pantheon three-year-old Hot Shot was precluded from keeping his engagement at Canterbury yesterday to an owing to an injury he sustained when…

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A Collision On the Kidderminster Carter and Collitt on Carpet Trainer Invited Into Stipes' Parlor "Hampered by Instructions"

Truth · Sunday 29 January 1933 · page 5

ANGRIEST man at Randwick on Anniversary Day was hoop George Carter. IMMEDIATELY after the Hurdle Race he bounced into the stipes' sanctum and literally spat sparks…

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Boy Drowned in Disused Quarry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 30 January 1933 · page 10

There was a tragic ending to the adventures of two small boys in a disused quarry yesterday evening, when one, Keith Pinkerton, 11, of Millhill-road, Waverley, slipped off a plank…

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