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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1934

3,472 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 174

Accidents Make Great Inventions

The World's News · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 24

DAWDLING over his lunch caused a man to make a valuable invention and a comfortable…

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MOTORING Grappling with Tyre "BlowOuts" Simple Precautions to Avert Accidents

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 44

"A TYRE blew out and the car capsized." Such a sentence often prefaces the description of a car smash, and engenders the belief that the blowing out…

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City Accident T. Joynton Smith Fined

The Sun · Wednesday 7 March 1934 · page 11

Thayre Joynton Smith, of Phillip-street, Sydney, was fined £5 for dangerous driving by Mr. Scobie, S.M., at the Traffic Court to-day. 30s for…

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Casualties. Found Drowned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 10

The body of Frank Barry, 61, gardener, who had been missing fiom his home in Nobleavenue, Bankstown, since last Monday morning was found floating in Georges River…

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Collision with Cruiser. Cargo Owners' Claim

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

As a sequel to the collision last October between the British motor ship Silver Palm and the United States cruiser Chicago, an action is being…

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Cyclist Hurt Collision With Car at Lidcombe

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 3

When a car and motor cycle collided at the corner of Joseph and Vaughan streets, Lidcombe, on Monday, Arthur Thomas Burchard, Victoria-street,…

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District Court. (Before Judge Curlewis.) Motor Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

Percy Thomas Milham, of Railway-road, St. Peters, sued Lancelot Reynolds of Amelia-street, Mascot, for £400 damages for injuries received as the result of a motor collision…

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Injured While Cranking Car. Bingara

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 10

Whilst cranking a car at Bingam, Mr. Stan Batterham, of Orban, Bingara, suffered a fracture of his right arm above the wrist…

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Sequel to Collision. Claim for 79,369 Dollars

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

Based on the findings of the Dairen Maritime Court, the Dairen Kisen Kaisha has filed a claim for 79,369 dollars for alleged damage done to…

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Man Drowned at Pt. Kembla May Be Resident of Ashfield

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 7

Police believe that the body washed up on Seven Mile Beach, Port Kembla, yesterday, is that of Alfred McBurnie, of Ashfield…

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Three Injured in Bus Smash Hit Light Standard

The Labor Daily · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 5

Out of control on the Windsor Road, near Parramatta, yesterday, a bus, carrying about 25 passengers, ran off the road and crashed into an…

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Five Hurt Bus Crashes Into Pole Accident Caused by Skid

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 1

A sensational accident occurred in Church-street, Parramatta, about 8.15 a.m. yesterday, when a motor bus crashed into an electric light pole near North…

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No Blame Fatal Motor Accident at Prospect

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 6

On Tuesday the district coroner, Mr. H. Richardson Clark, held an inquest at Parramatta concerning the death of William Lewis Jackson, of Macquarie-street,…

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Bruce Moore in Motor Accident

Referee · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 22

Bruce Moore was turning a car into the entrance of the home of Mrs. Lestrange in Grafton on Friday night, when the car somersaulted four times…

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Accident to Estevan

Referee · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 8

MR. ALAN COOPER'S promising colt, Estevan, is not likely to race again as a two-year-old. While running in the paddock Estevan had a fall which…

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Similar Accidents. Men Dragged from Vehicles. Clothing Caught in Wheels

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 March 1934 · page 9

A motor cyclist and the driver of a horsedrawn vehicle, in widely separated towns, were injured through their coats being caught in the wheels of their vehicles…

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Man Found Drowned

The Propeller · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 6

The body of Frank Barry, 61, gardener, who had been missing from his Home at Bankstown since last Monday morning, was found floating in George's…

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Accidents of the Week. Cyclists in Collision

The Propeller · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 6

During a bicycle road race last Saturday afternoon a head-on collision occurred on the Causeway at Kogarah Bay, between a motor cycle, ridden by…

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Cyclist Injured

The Labor Daily · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 1

Hurled to the ground from his bicycle when both forks of the front wheel broke in Concord Road, Concord yesterday, Herbert Eldridge…

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Farmer Drowned. Rylstone

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 March 1934 · page 10

At an inquiry held this afternoon into the death of Cecil Valentine Howe. 50, bee farmer, whose body was recovered from a waterhole about four miles from Rylstone at 7 o'clock…

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