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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

3,943 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 198

Car Wrecked, Two Men Injured. Goondiwindi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 16

News has been received that Mr. H. A. Mace, grazier, of Moogoon Station, and Mr. St. George Gore, agent, of Goondiwindi, were injured in an accident at Toorilla, near Mr…

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Fifteen Injured Nearly Into River MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 5

Fifteen persons were injured when a motor van, containing 50 members of an amateur theatrical company, on their way to a revue at…

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1000 Feet Below Miner Critically Injured MELBOURNE

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 5

Bert Sibley 40. miner of Maple-street. Golden Square. Bendigo, was struck on the head by a stone which fell on him while he was working…

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Two Men Injured By Mad Cows at Cycle a Swift Rush Eye Torn Out Dragged by Rope

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 3

ATTACKED by an infuriated cow at Auburn to=day, a man had his right eye gouged out, while at the…

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Grafton Accidents. Grafton

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 16

When a lorry loaded with a, three-[?]on road roller turned over at, Cowper last night, the driver, J. Buckley, of Lismore, suffered probably a fracture of the skull, a deep confused…

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Inquiry Gordon Accident the Procedure Punishment Scale

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 3

PREPARATORY to the holding of a departmental inquiry, administrative officers of the locomotive, traffic and signalling…

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Bush Tragedy Man Shot Dead "Accident" Theory

The Sun · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 8

The body of Patrick Childs. 21, of Glenfield, was found by residents in the bush near Minto, 12 miles from Liverpool, to-day…

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Main Roads Department Sacks a Distinguished Skipper Shackleton's Navigator Victim of Red Tape Road Engineers Sit in Judgment on Ferry Accident

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 5

WHEN a vehicular ferry bumped into the berthing dock at Stockton recently the master was held responsible, and a committee…

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A Story for the Kiddies. The Adventures Of Will Wattle-Gum It Looked Like A Dreadful Accident

The Labor Daily · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 11

THERE was quite a crowd on the Bushland bus. Will Wattle-gum drove ever so cleverly round the corners and Clarence Kookaburra…

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After the Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 6

A RAILWAY collision, though nobody is badly hurt, is nothing to be glad about; but at Gordon yesterday morning . there were two features of relief or atonement. One was the safety of the passengers in the steel electric…

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Meno Accidenti Del Traffico. Roma, 12 Febbraio

Italo-Australian · Saturday 16 March 1935 · page 4

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Driver Badly Hurt Cars in Collision at Ryde Intersection

The Sun · Sunday 17 March 1935 · page 1

James Byron, 60, of Cabramatta road, Cabramatta, was seriously injured late yesterday afternoon in a collision between his motor car and…

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Six Injured in Smash Car Swerved to Miss Tree on Road Brisbane

The Sun · Sunday 17 March 1935 · page 2

Six persons were injured, one seriously, in a collision between a motor car and truck on the North Coast road, near Beerwah, last night. Strong…

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Interstate News Twelve Injured Truck Overturns With Forty Skid Down Bank Melbourne

Truth · Sunday 17 March 1935 · page 13

TWELVE people were seriously injured when a truck carrying forty members of the Veneen Amateur Revue Company crashed…

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Seriously Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 5

Seriously injured when the car in which he was riding collided with an other car at the intersection of Blaxland and Victoria-roads, Ryde, on…

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Boy Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 5

White riding a bicycle yesterday, James Finlayson (8), of Campbell-street, Parramatta, was knocked down by a motor car at the intersection of…

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Melbourne Fatality. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 10

One man was killed and another man was injured in a collision between a motor car and a motor lorry half a mile from the Munro turn-off on the Princes Highway about 7 p.m…

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Cyclist Hurt in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 9

In a collision between a car and his push bike at the intersection of Martin and Macquarie Streets, Parramatta, yesterday, James Finlayson,…

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Horse Rider Injured

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 5

While riding a horse rat the Galston Recreation Ground, Galston, yesterday afternoon, a man named McCarthy, 39, a plumber, of Prospect-street, Kogarah, was…

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Four Persons Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1935 · page 10

Four persons were injured when two cars collided at the intersection of Parramatta-road and Croydon-road, Croydon, last evening. They were Mrs. Alice Foster, 43, of…

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