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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

1,478 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 74

Tram Conductor Hit by Lorry: Seriously Injured

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 May 1945 · page 14

ARTHUR BROWN (54), tram conductor, of Gordon Crescent, Petersham, was seriously injured today when, attempting to lower a pole…

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Injured in Collision

The Biz · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 4

Last Friday two district residents were injured in a collision between a truck (loaded with 30 men) and a tram in the city. They were William Carroll (55). of…

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Child Drowned in Dam

Nepean Times · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 1

Martin James William Gardner, the 3-year-old son of Mrs Germaine Susanne Willcox (formerly Gardner) was accidentally drowned in a dam near…

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Man Injured by Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 4

A man whose identity has not yet been established, suffered a probable fracture of the skull when he was struck by a tram in Liverpool Street…

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Level Crossing Fatality Old Lady Killed at Springwood

Nepean Times · Thursday 31 May 1945 · page 1

MRS. MARY KELLY (84), of Moorecourt Avenue, Springwood, was killed when struck by a train at the level crossing near…

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D.f.c. Killed in Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 1 June 1945 · page 3

LONDON, Friday.--Wing-Commander Basil Howard, D.F.C., of New South Wales, who took Dart m the Tattle for Britain as a fighter-pilot…

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Injured in Fall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 2 June 1945 · page 4

Mr. Calvin Robb, 20, son of Mr. L. A. Robb, official secretary to the Governor, fell 20 feet from a window at Government House late last night…

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Neta Linetta, Injured, Retired

Daily Mirror · Saturday 2 June 1945 · page 13

WELL - KNOWN performer Neta Linette will never race again. She broke a near hind fetlock…

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Police Seek Injured Man's Relatives

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 3 June 1945 · page 7

Darlinghurst police want to contact relatives of William Joseph Morris, 82, of Yurong Street. East Sydney…

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Injured "girl" was a youth in Fancy Dress, Struck by Car

The Sun · Sunday 3 June 1945 · page 3

CANTERBURY ambulance men who were called to attend a young girl knocked down by a car at Picnic Point,…

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Pitcher Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 June 1945 · page 6

Playing baseball for Cumberland against Western Suburbs at Marrickville Oval yesterday. Harold Goodwin received a nasty crack on the leg with…

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Ambulance, Army Truck in Collision Patient Thrown on Roadway

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 5 June 1945 · page 14

AN ambulance in which were two seriously ill men somersaulted twice, throwing one of the men out of the back…

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Two Youths Injured in Bike-lorry Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 June 1945 · page 2

TWO youths were injured when their motor-cycle and a lorry collided at the intersection of Seventh. Ave. and First Ave., Campsie, today…

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Three Hurt in Car Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 7 June 1945 · page 5

THREE men were injured when their car was almost completely wrecked after it collided with another car and crashed into a telegraph pole…

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Injured Solicitor, Condition Improves

The Sun · Thursday 7 June 1945 · page 5

Condition of Stanley Jones, 46, solicitor, Coogee Bay-road, Coogee, has improved. He was savagely punched and kicked by…

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Italian's Death Fall From Lorry in Collision

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 June 1945 · page 2

Death from fracture of the skull and intra-cranial hemorrhage accidentally received through falling from the top of a loaded lorry after it came into…

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Footballers Injured

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 June 1945 · page 5

OSWALD MILLER (29), Albert St., St. Peters (concussion), and Alan reen (20); St. -Peters (lacerated outh), were taken to Marrickville…

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Two Injured by Car

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 June 1945 · page 2

MRS. JEAN ELIZABETH OLIVER (72), Birriga Rd., Bellevue Hill, suffered bruises, abrasions and severe shock and Lindon Oliver (39), same…

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Old Man Injured by Car

Daily Mirror · Friday 8 June 1945 · page 7

PERCIVAL LITTLEWOOD (71), Albert St., Petersham, received a fractured skull and left arm when struck by a car while crossing…

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