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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

1,478 stories in Sydney's papers · page 22 of 74

Nine Injured in City Tram Smash

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 4

Nine persons were injured when two double set trams collided at the City Rd. stop in Parramatta Rd., Broadway, at 7.40 this morning. POLICE were told that the smash…

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Nine Injured In Tram Smash; Skid On Leaves

The Sun · Tuesday 20 March 1945 · page 3

Nine people were injured in a tram collision in Broadway at 8 am today and six were taken to hospital. Fig leaves cluttering the tracks are said to…

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9 Hurt In Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 13

Nine passengers were injured when a crowded tram skidded and crashed into the back of a stationary tram outside Grace…

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Nine Injured When Trams Collide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 8

Nine people were injured when two crowded trams collided in Parramatta Road, Broadway, yesterday…

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Five Injured in Smash on Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 3

Two Royal Navy officers and three women riding in this jeep were seriously injured when it crashed into the steel fence on the Harbour Bridge last night. One woman was flung over the fence on to the railway line. Top: Police and railway…

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Couple Robbed by Thugs Man Felled; Woman Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 4

Three thugs attacked and robbed a man and a woman in Calder Road, Darlington, last night…

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Spectacular Car Smash 5 Injured in Jeep Smash on Bridge

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 7

Two girls, a married woman, and two Royal Navy officers were injured when a jeep in which they were travelling crashed into a steel fence on the Harbor Bridge last night…

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Beauty Specialist in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 6

MISS MAUDE MADDOCKS (64), well-known beauty specialist, King St., City, had her skull and nose fractured when she was struck…

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Beauty Specialist in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 6

MISS MAUDE MADDOCKS (64), well - known beauty specialist, King St., City, had her skull and nose fractured when she was struck…

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Beauty Specialist in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 6

MISS MAUDE MADDOCKS (64), well known beauty specialist, King St., City, had her skull and nose fractured when she was struck…

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Farmer Killed in Rifle Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 18

CASINO, Wednesday.--The body of Austin Wilfred Bede. Foley (54), farmer, Hogarth Range, was found by his son suspended by the…

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Beauty Specialist in City Street Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 21 March 1945 · page 6

MISS. MAUDE MADDOCKS (64), well known beauty specialist, King St., City, had her skull and nose fractured when she was struck…

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Boy Reported Drowned

The Sun · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 3

Volunteers: Three youths, Gordon Hayes, Sid Rollason, and George Needham, who dived for the body of a boy thought to be drowned in a waterhole at Epsom-road, Rosebery…

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Truck, Tram in Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 5

PICTURE shows damaged tram and truck after a collision at Leichhardt yesterday…

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Boy Drowned in Lake

The Propeller · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 1

A boy named Lawrence Andrew Woodward, aged six years, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodward, of Garden Street, Kogarah, was drowned last Saturday afternoon…

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Man Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 3

THOMAS CHARLES DENNING (62), Gerald St., Marrickville, struck by a truck while crossing Chalmers St., City, yesterday, was…

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Man Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 6

THOMAS CHARLES' DENNING (62), Gerald St., Marrickville, struck by a truck while crossing Chalmers St.. City. yesterday. was…

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Man Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 3

THOMAS CHARLES DENNING (62), Gerald St., Marrickville, struck by a truck while crossing Chalmers St., City, yesterday, was…

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Man Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 3

THOMAS CHARLES DENNING (62), Gerald St., Marrickville, struck by a truck while crossing Chalmers St., City, yesterday, was…

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Livingston Injured For Vital Game

The Sun · Thursday 22 March 1945 · page 12

A finger injury will probably prevent NSW representative cricketer, Jock Livingston from…

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