The Toll of the Road. Deaths from Accidents
The number of road accidents in 1940 was. 10,773, involving the death of 517 persons and injuries to 7,866 others. Announcing these figures this…
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Small Slips—Serious Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales.)
The road accident figures for January show an unusually high percentage of accidents caused by motorists failing to signal their intention to stop or to change…
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LONDON, January 21.--Captain M. E. Beale, 28, and Second-Lieutenant W. E. D. Paul, 24, officers of a British regiment in Northern Ireland, are…
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S. Nicholls was slightly injured at Ascot to-day, and will not be riding to-morrow at Moorefield. Nicholls was riding in a heat of…
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LONDON, Thursday (A.A.P.).--The Minister for Transport (Colonel Moore[?]Brabazon) told the House of Commons yesterday that road accident casualties…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railway Accidents in Spain. (Published in "The Times.") MADRID, Feb. 20
A[?] a result of the unusual number of railway accidents, some of which are believed to have been due to sabotage, the Spanish Government has decreed that henceforth the…
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Allen Cameron, 14, and his brother, James, aged 5, were both drowned yesterday five miles above Wilcannia. Their boat was found caught in the trees two miles below the scene…
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MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- James Watts, 32, shunter, of Victoria Street, North Melbourne, was run over by a truck in Spencer Street rail yards…
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Instead of riding Tarn to victory in the first division of the Flying Welter at Moorefield yesterday, apprentice rider, S. Nicholls, heard the race described over the air. On Friday morning Nicholls was…
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DUBBO, Saturday. -- Reuben Ackland, 60, gate attendant, was seriously injured when a train struck the gates at West Dubbo level…
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A sailor was drowned in attempting to rescue a girl in difficulties in deep water at Chelsea today…
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Gordon Ross Hamilton, 21, a member of the R.A.N., was drowned while rescuing a girl in difficulties at Chelsea Beach this afternoon…
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Edward Morley, 62, fisherman, of Ulladulla, who had been trapped on a ledge in a steep cliff without food or water since Wednesday night, when…
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Four people were killed and many were injured in road accidents in Sydney and country districts of New South Wales during the week-end…
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MONTREAL, Monday.--Nine men were drowned to-day, when a truck laden with ice-cutters, crashed through the ice in the St. Lawrence…
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Two Australian jockeys returned to Sydney yesterday by flying-boat, each with an arm in a sling…
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J. O'Brien, who won the first race at Moonee Valley to-day, was thrown from Aloe Hill at the barrier as the second race was about to start…
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The woman's body found in a cleft of rock 40ft below a track on Khyber Pass, nine miles from Wentworth Falls, was identified yesterday as that of Miss…
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GRIFFITH, Monday.--Leonard Lawler, 17, captain of Griffith High School, was killed yesterday in a peculiar manner…
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When a motor-cycle and a car collided almost head-on in Parramatta road, near Kemp-street, Granville, on Saturday, the motor-cyclist, Harold…
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