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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

3,190 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 160

Three Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 9

Three people were seriously injured at Prospect yesterday when a car crashed into a telegraph pole in Western Road…

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Safe After Harbor Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 1

DRAWING the sailing boat Harmony from the water after its collision yesterday with a Manly ferry. Below: The crew (from left), Doug. Brown, Keith Kershaw (skipper), Peter Marich, Bruce Bloomfield, and Ian Fraser. Sec report, Page 9, column 8…

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Boy Fatally Injured

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 1

Gordon Alchin, 15. milk boy, was fatally injured when an electric train struck him at Guldford railway station on Saturday morning…

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Horseman Injured. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 14

Phillip Sullivan, of Mumbil, was riding a horse when it fell and rolled on him, breaking one of his legs. He was admitted to the Wellington Hospital…

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Tragic Sequel Missing Father Drowned SINGLETON

The Sun · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 10

A sensational development followed the adjournment of an inquiry on Saturday by the District Coroner (Mr. Alex Morison) concerning the…

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Two Boys Injured. Search for Motorist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 10

A motor car crashed into two little boys who were riding a tricycle in Wilson-street, Newtown. [?] Saturday afternoon. The motorist drove on after the accident, and disappeared…

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Tram and Lorry Collide. Four Persons Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 6

Four persons were injured on Saturday when a tram collided with a motor lorry in Trafalgar-street, Petersham, and hurled it against a motor car…

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Air Fatality Solo Pupil Nose-dives Into N.z. Swamp

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 9

AUCKLAND, Sunday.--An aviation fatality occurred at Hamilton, the victim being Raymond Eric Land, 19, flying pupil…

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Collision in Harbor Sailing Boat Hit by Ferry Crew's Peril

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 9

Almost strangled under water by loose rigging, one man narrowly escaped death, and four others had…

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Burning Home. Woman and Children Escape Man Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 10

A woman and her two small children had a narrow escape from death when their home in Bay-parade, Long Bay, was destroyed by fire at about midnight on Saturday. She and…

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Struck Post Three Injured in Western-road Motor Smash

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 1

Two young women and a man were seriously injured when the ear in which they were driving along the Western-road, Prospect, collided with an electric…

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Manly Ferry Hove -To in the Bombora Collision with Skiff; Five Men Have Lucky Escape Near Panic Six Sailing Boats Overturn on Harbor

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 1

FIVE men in a 16ft sailing skill had narrow escapes from death on the Harbor off, Dobroyd Point at 5 o'clock last evening…

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Wide Search for Callous Hit-runner Two Little Boys Are Badly Injured by Car One May Die Stopped to Examine the Mudguards and Then Drove on

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 5

POLICE are conducting a city wide search for the callous motorist who ran down two little boys at Newtown on Saturday, and…

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Motor Accidents. Four People Dead. Car Plunges Over Bank. Wellington (N.z.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1933 · page 10

Four lives were lost when a motor car containing six people plunged over a 40ft bank at Island Bay, a suburb of Wellington, at midnight on Saturday…

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Horseman Injured. Parkes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1933 · page 10

Norman Nash was hurrying home to avoid being caught in a storm when his horse fell and one of Nash's ankles was broken. He managed to remount and reach home…

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Girl Injured Outside Hospital

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 April 1933 · page 1

Nancy McMenaman, 30, an employee of the Mater Misericordias Hospital, North Sydney, was admitted to that Institution on Sunday…

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Casualties. Nurse Injured by Car

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1933 · page 10

Miss Nancy Menamin, a nurse at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, was knocked down by a motor car in Pacific Highway, North Sydney, on Sunday night. She was admitted to Mater…

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District Court. (Before Judge Thomson.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1933 · page 6

Robert Newton, of First-avenue, Fivedock, sought to recover from Isidore Basser, of Hassans Walls-road, Lithgow, £1[?] for damages to a motor car, arising out of a motor colision…

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Body in Dam Drowning of Man Whose Child Had Died

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 April 1933 · page 8

SINGLETON.--Monday.--A sensational development followed the adjournment of the inquest on Mary Joyce Moffitt. aged two years and…

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Ship's Officer Injured. Coff's Harbour

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1933 · page 10

Joseph Daley, second officer of the North Coast steamer Bonalbo, fell down the open after-hold of the vessel at Coff's Harbour, on Saturday night, and had ribs fractured. He…

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