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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1943

1,584 stories in Sydney's papers · page 11 of 80

Driver Fined £3 For Hire Refusal Injured Child Denied Taxi

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

A taxi driver who refused to drive a woman and an injured child to the Coast Hospital on the night of December 26, was…

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Driver Fined £3 For Hire Refusal Injured Child Denied Taxi

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

A taxi driver who refused to drive a woman and an injured child to the Coast Hospital on the night of December 26, was…

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Driver Fined £3 For Hire Refusal Injured Child Denied Taxi

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

A taxi driver who refused to drive a woman and an injured child to the Coast Hospital on the night of December 26, was…

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Driver Fined £3 For Hire Refusal Injured Child Denied Taxi

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 3

A taxi driver who refused to drive a woman and an injured child to the Coast Hospital on the night of December 26, was…

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Boy Shot in Gun Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1943 · page 5

Raymond Orchard, 12, of Carlingford, may have to have his right forearm amputated, following an accidental shooting in the garden of a house in…

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Drowned in Creek

The Sun · Tuesday 23 February 1943 · page 2

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.-- Reginald Hussell (30), who came from NSW, has been drowned in Cattle Creek, near Ingham. He…

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Minister Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 7

LONDON, Feb. 23 (A.AP.).—The American Associated Press reports that Mr. Harold MacMillan, British Minister in North Africa, was slightly…

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Collision in the Atlantic

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 4

In the British Admiralty Court recently, judgment was given in an action in which the owners of the steamship Warkworth, of…

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Collision: Single Ship Meeting Convoy

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 4

In the House of Lords recently, their Lordships allowed an appeal from a judgment of the Court, of Appeal dated May 29, 1941,…

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Pulls 2 Injured From Sinking Plane

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

The Dutch co-pilot of a Mitchell bomber, shot down in the middle of the Timor Sea, pulled two injured survivors from the…

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Soldiers Injured by Hit-run Lorry

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 2

NEWCASTLE, Wednesday. -- Five soldiers marching in a squad along Pacific Highway near Charlestown last night were struck by a…

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Three Injured in Truck Smash at Loftus

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 3

THREE men were injured yesterday when a motor truck collided with a telegraph pole in Prince's Highway, Loftus…

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Three Injured in Truck Smash at Loftus

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 4

THREE men were injured yesterday when a motor truck collided with a telegraph pole in Prince's Highway Loftus…

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Three Injured in Truck Smash at Loftus

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 24 February 1943 · page 4

THREE men were injured yesterday when a motor truck collided with a telegraph pole in Prince's Highway, Loftus…

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Head-on Collision

The Sun · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 2

Dramatic picture of the head-on collision at Strangway's Siding, South Australia, last week, reported yesterday. Staff Sergeant Joe Lynam (US Army), well-known wrestler, rescued the fireman, Leslie Thomas, of NSW. Thomas was…

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Injured Man Dies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 7

Harley Patrick Bourke, 49, of Parramatta Road, Annandale, both of whose legs were severed by a tram in Parramatta Road on Monday, died in the…

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Children Die In Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 25 February 1943 · page 5

Four children died yesterday as the result of accidents. ELECTROCUTED:Kenneth Bradley Reid, 12, of Murriverie Road, North…

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Fatal Collision at Northmead

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

ONE man was killed and another seriously injured when their truck, loaded with watermelons, crashed into a lorry carrying a…

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Fatal Collision at Northmead

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 3

ONE man was killed and another seriously injured when their truck, loaded with watermelons, crashed into a lorry carrying a…

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Baseball For Injured Player

Daily Mirror · Saturday 27 February 1943 · page 8

Three combined baseball teams-- two of them American--will play at Marrickville Oval tomorrow afternoon, providing a benefit…

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