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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

3,173 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 159

Rigger Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 2

WOLLONGONG, Monday.--Falling 40 feet on a construction Job for the new Armco works near Port Kembla today, Robert Carlson, rigger, was critically…

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Motor Collision Near Ungarie. Ungarie

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 8

Eight people were injured—three seriously— when two heavy sedan cars collided atout, three miles from Ungarie last night. The injured were:—Richard Ceely, machanic,…

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Fatal Albury Collision Preparing for Show Photonews

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 5

TWO MEN AND TWO WOMEN, occupants of this car, were killed in a…

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70 Injured in Election Rioting Alexandria

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 5

Twenty police and 50 civilians were injured during election rioting to-day following the arrival of the Premier…

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Greyhound News Good Dogs Injured in Races

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 15

A number of prominent greyhounds are on the injured list. Bayard, who won so convincingly at Harold Park a few weeks ago; broke down…

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An Amazing Story Effort at Rescue Though Blinded Blazing Man On Road After Collision

The Sun · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 2

A story of the amazing fortitude and pluck of a young man, who, though almost blinded, beat out the flames and helped to rescue a man trapped in the tangled wreckage of a burning motor car and burning motor cycle, told at…

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C.I.B. Probe on Fire at Tumut Accident, Is Local Opinion Sparks Blamed

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 29 March 1938 · page 5

FOLLOWING a fire which severely damaged a block of shops between Fitzroy and Wynyard Streets, Tumut, early yesterday morning, the…

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Hume Highway Motor Fatality. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 15

Verdicts of accidental death were returned by the District Coroner, Mr. J. A. Harris, at inquests concerning the deaths of Robert Williams and Charles Rigby, well-known…

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Injured Man's Pluck. Almost Blinded, Aided Accident Victim. Difficulty About Ambulance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 10

A dramatic story of how a young man, although severly injured, dazed, and almost blinded, assisted in efforts to rescue another victim of a motor…

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Barrier Mishap. Two Jockeys Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 21

Backers of Foxhall in the Malden Two-years-old Handicnp at Richmond yesterday were annoyed when they saw that that runner lost about six lengths at the start of the race…

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Gladys Moncrieff Injured Melbourne

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 1

MISS GLADYS MONCRIEFF, noted singer, was seriously injured this afternoon. A car in which she was driving crashed…

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Injured Man Arrives By Plane

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 7

MR. A. GORDON ARNOTT, Bingara solicitor, who was seriously injured in a car accident several days ago, reached Sydney…

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McMENAMIN Injured, But Wins Double

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 19

After leading all the way on the hot favorite, Lyle, in the Maiden Two-Year-Old Handicap at Richmond yesterday, E. McMenamin returned to scale bleeding…

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Rajah of Pudukota. Injured in Motor Smash in France. LONDON, March 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 18

The Rajeh of Pudukota, whose mother was formerly Miss Molly Fink, of Melbourne, was injured in a motor car crash at Chalons-sur-Saone…

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Famous Singer in Smash Manager Is Also Injured Car Got Out Of Control--Hit Pole Badly Hurt Melbourne, Tues

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 1

WHEN the car in which they were travelling from Adelaide to Melbourne got out of control and crashed into a pole…

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Could Not Go to Accident Delay in Obtaining Ambulance

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 8

EVIDENCE given at an inquiry at the Parramatta Coroner's Court yesterday, into the death of Edward John Welch, 21, a station hand, who…

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Doctor's Fatal Fall From Bus. Accident at Corner

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 March 1938 · page 18

Dr. William Cunningham Denniston, 54, of Bondi Road, Bondi, was fataly injured yesterday afternoon, when he fell from a double-decker motor bus at North Bondi…

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Child Fatally Injured

Nepean Times · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 4

John William Petersen, the two-year-old son of Mr and Mrs A. W. Petersen, of Homer Street, Earlwood (formerly of Penrith), was playing in a…

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Injured in Fall

Nepean Times · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 4

Mr Tom Flannery, of Station street, Penrith, while at his work at Evelelgh, fell [?] distance of about 8ft to the ground. He was taken to hospital…

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Runaway Horse Drowned. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 March 1938 · page 8

After bolting in a street at Goulburn, a valuable spring-cart horse, harnessed to a cart loaded with vegetables, plunged, with the cart still attached, into the Wollondilly River and…

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