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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 30 of 159

Two Police Injured at Carnival

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1938 · page 2

Fourteen police crashed in a heap [?] the Sports Ground last night during an exhibition by police motor cyclists…

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STOP-PRESS Early Morning Car Smash Unknown Woman Killed: Four Others Injured

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1938 · page 1

A young woman unidentified was kil[?]ed and [?] their [?] were injured when [?] and a car collided [?] to-day [?]…

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Woman Killed As Car Crashes Into Post on Kerbing Husband And Three Sons Injured in Artarmon Smash; Tragic End To Holiday Trip

The Sun · Sunday 6 March 1938 · page 2

A woman was killed and her husband and three sons were injured when the sedan car in which they were travelling crashed into a street post in Pacific Highway, Artarmon, late yesterday afternoon…

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Fisherman Drowned Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 10

While fishing off some rocks near Coalcliff beach on Saturday, John Metcalf, 55, was washed away by heavy waves, and carried some…

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Woman Hurt Cars in Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 2

Mrs. Mary McKenzie, of Mount-street, Coogee, suffered a fractured pelvis when a car ran into the rear of another car in Windsor-road, Baulkham Hills, on Friday…

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Road Accidents. Woman Killed as Car Overturned. Four Others Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 7

A motor car and a taxi-cab collided in Bunnerong Road, La Perouse, early yesterday morning, and the impact turned the car over Miss Jean Vincent, 28, of Tile Street,…

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Has Seizure, Falls Into Lake, Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 7

Slipping on the bank of Lake Parramatta yesterday, Harold Rupert Const, 47, of St. John's Road, Glebe, fell into the water and was drowned…

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Injured While Diving Wollongong

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 6

Maurice Shore, of Bexley, was admitted to Coledale Hospital on Saturday with a badly-lacerated scalp. He was divine from a springboard at…

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Man Drowned at Parkamatta Slipped From Grass Into Lake

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 5

Losing his balance on slippery crass on the bank of Parramatta Lake, yesterday afternoon, Harold Rupert Const, 47, wharf laborer, of St…

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Swimmer Drowned. Fell Into Lake Parramatta. Was Talking to Sister

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 12

Harold Rupert Comst, 47. a wharf labourer, of St. John's Road, Glebe, was drowned in Lake Parramatta yesterday. Comst who had been swimming during the…

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Man Drowned in 11 Inches of Water. Was Powerful Swimmer. WOLLONGONG

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 8

Evidence was given at a coroner's inquiry yesterday that Howard Beresford, aged l8, was drowned in 11 inches of water in Towradgi Creek, on February 22…

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Ship's Sea Dash Injured Seaman Rushed to Port Ambulance Waits at Dockside

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 7

TO get an injured seaman to hospital, the freighter City of Pretoria made, a 55-mile dash to Sydney yesterday…

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Girl Dead; Three Injured Dancers in Bad Smash Car And Taxi Collide At Yarra Bay on Bridge

The Labor Daily · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 1

ONE of the worst motor accidents in recent months occurred on Bunnerong Road, Yarra Bay, early yesterday…

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Accidents in U.S.A. "30 Per Cent. Due to Alcohol." AUCKLAND

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 9

One of the leading brain surgeons in tha United States, Dr. G. W. Swift, of Seattle, arrived on the Aorangi. After a brief stay here he will go to Sydney to lecture at the…

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Fireman's Neck Dislocated. Accident on Steamer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 13

Budshah Mian an Indian fireman on the Ellerman Bucknall Line Steamer City of Pretoria, was standing underneath the ash hoist yesterday when a bag fell on his head,…

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3 Women Dead in Car Accidents Many Hurt on Roads: Notorious "Death-trap" Claims Victims

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 March 1938 · page 2

THREE women were killed in motor accidents at the week-end, but in no case do the police consider excessive speed to have been a contributing, factor. One fatal smash happened at a…

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Children Hurt in Collision

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 5

When two children, Alexander and Noel Burns, aged 8 and 5 respectively of Barry Road, Moorebank, drove the cycle they were riding from behind…

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Supposed Remains of Drowned Youth

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Monday.--A pelvis and thigh bone, believed to nave been those of William Howell, 17, of North Stockton, were found on North Stockton Beach…

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Cyclist Injured at Pratten Park

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 8

FOLLOWING a crash in a Junior handicap at Pratten Park last night. J. C. Crampton was removed to Western Suburbs Hospital…

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Workers' Compensation Commission. (Before Judge Lamond and Mr. Commissioner Routley.) Head Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 8 March 1938 · page 7

Alexander Beattie Crichton, a salesman, applied for compensation for varying periods of total and partial incapacity, from James Brechin Ballardie, trading formerly as the…

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