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Accidents, 1946

2,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 27 of 128

Lorry Driver Fatally Injured in Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 8

GOSFORD, Saturday.--George Connors (29), married, Ocean View Rd., Ettalong, was fatally injured last night when a lorry he was…

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Lorry Driver Fatally Injured in Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 8

GOSFORD, Saturday.--George Connors (29), married, Ocean View Rd., Ettalong, was fatally injured last night when a lorry he was…

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Lorry Driver Fatally Injured in Accident

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 8

GOSFORD, Saturday.--George Connors (29), married, Ocean View Rd., Ettalong, was fatally injured last night when a lorry he was…

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Injured Driver Back for Race

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 26

Victorian midget car ace Ron Edgerton, who was injured in a crash two weeks ago, will drive at the Sports Ground variety carnival tonight…

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3 'Diggers' Injured In Kure Blaze

The Sun · Saturday 23 March 1946 · page 1

KURE, Saturday. -- When the tiled roof of a billet caved in during a fire at Ujina, near Hiroshima,…

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Jockey injured in training smash

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 24 March 1946 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Sat.--Tranquil Star's rider, Ken Smith, had his eye cut, his tongue lacerated, and his back injured in a smash at Caulfield this morning…

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Car Involved in Two Accidents; Five Hurt

Truth · Sunday 24 March 1946 · page 47

Five persons were injured in two accidents involving the one car in Pacific Highway, Killara, early last night. A woman was driving the car along Pacific Highway when a…

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Car's 2 accidents in 15 minutes Hit child, then fence, four hurt

The Sun · Sunday 24 March 1946 · page 2

A CAR was involved in two accidents within a quarter of a mile of each other in Pacific Highway,…

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Died After Collision

The Sun · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

Suffering from a fractured skull, which he received when his sulky and a car collided a week ago, Ernest Lancelot…

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Woman, 80, Boy Scout Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 12

Yesterday an 80-year-old woman was drowned near Blacktown, and a Boy Scout was drowned near Heathcote. The woman, Mrs. Gertrude Coker…

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Girl, Feared Drowned, 'Phones From Brisbane

The Sun · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 3

A missing girl, for whose body police and civilians had searched Collaroy foreshores in vain, rang up her father from Brisbane last night. Patricia McMurdo, 16, of…

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Scout Found Drowned Tragic Camp Trip

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 March 1946 · page 4

A Boy Seout was found drowned in six feet of waler in Heathcote Creek, a tributary of the Woronora River, hear Sutherland, yesterday…

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Four Drowned in Queensland Rivers Flood In North

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 1

Four men have been drowned in southern Queensland in floods caused by the cyclone whose centre last night moved south into New South Wales…

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Trams Involved In Four Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 26 March 1946 · page 12

Trams were involved in four accidents in Sydney yesterday. A tram and an ambulance containing a woman patient,…

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Tasmanian Horseman Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 2

A man was drowned yesterday in the flooded South Esk River, Tasmania. The man, Leslie David Morrison, 39…

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Three Injured In Road Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 6

Three people were injured yesterday in accidents involving trams. Two women were injured when their…

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Youth Drowned In North Coast Floods

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 1

A youth was drowned and 18,000 square miles of the North Coast were flooded yesterday when four swollen rivers broke their banks. Floodwaters are swirling…

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Detective Chief Injured By Wave

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 16

A 15ft. wave sweeping across Bronte baths early yesterday morning injured Mr. T. Wickham, Chief Superintendent of Detectives…

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Courtship Badly Injured: Thompson's Escape

The Sun · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 14

Courtship was injured so seriously in a track smash at Randwick today that her future is extremely doubtful. Out of control when her bit broke, she finished up by crashing into a fence, suffering a shocking gash in the chest…

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Injured Finger Has Brown Worried

The Sun · Wednesday 27 March 1946 · page 14

WELLINGTON (NZ), Wednesday. -- With the Test against New Zealand only two days away, an injured finger is worrying Australian XI captain Billy Brown…

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