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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 159

Industrial News Dismissal of Jury Is Asked Injured Workers' Claim K.c.'s Complaint

The Labor Daily · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 9

JURIES are influenced against injured workers to damages claims for negligence and their minds deflected from the real issues by…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 1

The following cases were treated by officers of Neflgan Ambulance:— Leslie Lawson, of 82 Arthur Street, Moore Park, was treated at…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 2

Albert Venables, of 86 Calero Street, Lithgow, was riding a motor cycle at Woodford on 12th inst., and when near a bend on the road he struck a…

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Mr. J. N. Lawson in Serious Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 4

Mr J. N. Lawson, member for Macquarie, who was campaigning in the west, met with a severe accident when driving through to his property at…

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Two Women And Boy Die In Lorry Accidents

The Sun · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 22

Two women and a two-year-old boy were killed to-day in three motor lorry accidents. In one case, a lorry, after colliding with a car, skidded across the road and struck a stationary bus…

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Weakness As Accident Cause

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 7

Weariness caused by a 12-hour stretch of taxi-driving was given as the cause of a collision between a taxi and a car in Hayberry Street. Crow's Nest, at 4…

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Two Die After Motor Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 1

A man and a woman were fatally injured, yesterday, when their car collided with a motor lorry at the intersection of Carysfield Road and Liverpool…

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Mystery Of Injured Boy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 1

Frederick Masters, aged 3, was found seriously injured in Marine Drive, Tamarama, yesterday. He was half a mile from his home in…

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Mine Manager Injured Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 8

Falling 14ft. from a ladder in the Central Blue Gold Mirie, Bendigo, to-day, James Neilson, 62 mine manager, was so seriously injured that a…

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Assai Injured. Gallant Cup Performance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 17

Assal's performance in winning the Bathurst Cup on Monday was remarkable. There was a good deal of crowding in the first furlong, and Assai was galloped on. His near hind…

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Coaster Sinks. Collision With Freighter. No Lives Lost. London, March 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 14

The Shaw, Savill motor liner Wa[?]rangi (10,976 tons), bound for Brisbane, came into collision In the English Channel with the coaster Peter Hawksfield, which sank…

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Man and Woman Killed. Car in Collision With Van and Bus

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 19

Mr. Charles Bear, 64, of Arundel Street, Forest Lodge, and Mrs. Constance Dunn, 40, of Beach Street, Coogee, were killed about noon yesterday, when their motor car crashed…

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Fatal Dredge Accident. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 11

At an inquest on Norman Leslie McLeod, who was electrocuted at a dredge of Wellington Alluvials, on March 12, the Coroner, Mr. H. Lord. returned a verdict of accidental…

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Cyclist Critically Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 12

Passing motorists found Reginald Charles Johnson, 22, of Union Street, Granville, and John O'Brien, 30, of Mowles Street, Westmead, lying unconscious beside a smashed motor…

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Child Fatally Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 1

Helen Joan Murphy, 5, of Archer Street, Chatswood, was struck by a car and killed in Victoria Road, Chatswood, yesterday…

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Drowned While Paddling Picnic Tragedy

The Labor Daily · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 7

Desperate but vain efforts were made by ambulance men and others yesterday to restore animation to Mr. Teresa Waters. 59, of Oxford…

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Motor Cycle Fatality. No Information to Assist Coroner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 19

"This is an extrardinary accident as no person involved in it is able to help in any way with information as to how it happened " said the City Coioner (Mr. Oram)…

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Fatal Collision. Car Driver Committed for Trial. ADELAIDE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 17

The Coroner, Mr. Blackburn, committed Albert Carl Hausier, farmer and vigneron, of Lyndoch, for trial on a charge of driving hts car in a manner dangerous to the public,…

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Boy Killed And Two Injured In Billy- Cart Tragedy

The Sun · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 1

A boy of 11 was killed and two younger companions were seriously hurt to-day, when their runaway billy-cart dashed beneath a moving motor lorry at the corner of Glebe and Bay streets,…

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Man Found by Roadside Cannot Say How He Was Injured

The Sun · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 3

Found unconscious by a motorist in General Holmes Drive, Brightonle-Sands, last night, and now in St. George District Hospital in a serious…

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