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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

1,673 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 84

Shunting Fatality Perth

The Sun · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 2

C. J. Carrick, 35, who was injured during shunting operations at Merredin on Saturday, died in the local hospital yesterday…

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Pepper Thrown. Ambulance Man's Eyes Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 7

A man threw pepper into the eyes of Andrew Malcolm Craig, 25, a relieving ambulance officer at the Canterbury-Bankstown Ambulance station, early…

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Cricket Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 February 1941 · page 10

J. G. Lush, the Gordon cricketer, dislocated a shoulder, when he fell in taking a low catch. He received treatment at Balmain Hospital…

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Cyclist Killed in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 10

When riding a bicycle near the intersection of Lane Cove and Cox's Roads, at 9.30 last night, Gordon Herbert, 31, married, Waterloo Street, North Ryde, collided with a car driven…

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Death From Poison Gas. Strange Dry-cleaning Accident. BRISBANE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 9

At the inquest to-day on Frank Henry Harvatt, 26, it was suggested that he had accidentally poisoned himself with phosgene, which had been…

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Died From Shock In Lift Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 7

A man who was crushed in a city goods lift on December 18 died not from the injuries he received but from shock. He was Murray Elliot Jenkins, 35,…

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Daily Telegraph Picture Stories Gunn's Gully Just Met By Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 February 1941 · page 10

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Collision

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 5 February 1941 · page 2

When the driver of a stock float applied his brakes in an unsuccessful attempt to avoid collision with a car near the corner of Parramatta-road and…

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Fatal Collision

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 1

That John Ferguson Hain (38), of Pacific Highway, Turramurra, died on January 22 from laceration of the brain, accidentally received through a…

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Accidents of the Week. Cyclists Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 4

When two cyclists came into collision yesterday morning in Princes Highway, Arncliffe, one was injured. He was Donald Norton, 18 years of…

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Six Injured in Car Smash

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 7

Lady Fuller, wife of Sir Benjamin Fuller, was among six people injured yesterday in an accident involving two cars and a utility truck…

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Cars Collide. Lady Benjamin Fuller Among Six Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 9

During misty rain yesterday afternoon, a car skidded while descending the hill in New South Head Rond, Double Bay. After crashing into…

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The Late Father John McCusker's Tragic Death. Gives His Life in Attempting to Save Boys from Drowning BISHOP McGUIRE Preaches the Panegyric at the Obsequies at Bungendore

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 11

The Catholic community was profoundly shocked when the news was published that the Rev. Father John McCusker, parish priest of Bungendore…

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Case Over Roadside Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 3

A case arising out of an accident on Sunday evening, August 25 in which Mr William Trask suffered a fractured leg and abrasions, as a consequence of…

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Accident Proves Fatal

The Propeller · Thursday 6 February 1941 · page 4

Last Saturday night Dudley Lloyd Teller, aged 14 years, youngest son of Mr. D. L. Telfer, of Frederick St., Rockdale, was running to board a…

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Driver Crushed Under Tram. Accident at Depot

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 February 1941 · page 8

Edward Turrington, 60, a tram driver, of Devonshire Street, Crow's Nest, was jammed under a tram at Neutral Bay yesterday until lifting jacks were used to extricate him. He…

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Constable Injured In Street Fight

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 February 1941 · page 2

Constable Cooper received injuries to the face, hands, and body during a fight with two men in Arbitration Street, City, last night…

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Nine Injured As Truck Capsizes

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1941 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Saturday. -- Nine A.I.F. privates were hurt in a truck smash on Point Nepean Road, Cheltenham, today…

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Boy Shoots Himself Accidentally

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 9 February 1941 · page 8

GOSFORD, Saturday. -- John Power, 15, Home Burge Road, Woy Woy, shot himself in the abdomen yesterday while experimenting with…

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Balloon Cable Fatality

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 February 1941 · page 3

LONDON, January 14.--Alfred Radnall, 50, Yelverton Road, Battersea, was caught by the cable of a drifting barrage balloon, dragged through a tree…

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