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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

2,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 37 of 128

Shot Accidentally After Surviving War Dangers

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 17

NEW YORK.--Elmo Edward Glockner saw plenty of action in the European and Pacific war theatres-- he was shot down once--but he came…

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Shot Accidentally After Surviving War Dangers

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 17

NEW YORK.--Elmo Edward Glockner saw plenty of action in the European and Pacific war theatres--he was shot down once--but he came…

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Shot Accidentally After Surviving War Dangers

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 11

NEW YORK.--Elmo Edward Glockner saw plenty of action in the European and Pacific war theatres-- he was shot down once--but he came…

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Steep Rise in U.s. Traffic Accidents

Daily Mirror · Monday 22 April 1946 · page 2

NEW YORK.--In February traffic accident deaths were 45 per cent, higher than in the same month last year. Supporting its prediction of…

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Gordon Woman Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 2

MRS. MABEL HARLANE (74), Ridge St., Gordon, suffered injuries to the hips and a fractured right ankle when she fell from a…

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Gordon Woman Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 2

MRS. MABEL HARLANE (74), Ridge St., Gordon, suffered injuries to the hips and a fractured right ankle when she fell from a…

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Three Dead, 30 Injured On Holiday

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 7

More than 30 people were injured, one fatally, in road accidents in N.S.W. yesterday. TWO people were killed and three…

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Three Dead, 30 Injured On Holiday

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 7

More than 30 people were injured, one fatally, in road accidents in N.S.W. yesterday. TWO people w£re killed and three…

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Sir Samuel Hordern Injured at Home

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 6

Sir Samuel Hordern fell at his home at Retford Park, Bowral, on Friday, and injured his thigh. Bowral Ambulance took him to…

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Three Dead, 30 Injured On Holiday

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 7

More than 30 people were injured, one fatally, in road accidents in N.S.W. yesterday. TWO people were killed and three…

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Crowded Trams in Collision 17 Taken To Hospital

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 3

Broken glass showered over passengers when two crowded trams collided in Anzac Parade, Randwick, early yesterday afternoon, and 17 persons, many of them bleeding from ugly cuts, were rushed to St…

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Three Dead, 30 Injured On Holiday

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 7

More than 30 people were injured, one fatally, in road accidents in N.S.W. yesterday. TWO people were killed and three…

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19 Passengers Injured in Tram Smash Impact Throws Many From Seats

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 11

Nineteen persons were injured when a tram bound for Circular Quay crashed into the rear of a Railway tram in Alison Road, Randwick, at 1.45 p.m. yesterday…

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Anti-accident Campaign R.A.F. Chiefs Tour Our Staff Correspondent

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 3

LONDON, April 22.—The head of the Directorate of Accident Prevention at the Air Ministry, Air Commodore A. C. H. Sharp,…

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New Patrol Plan To Check Road Accidents

The Sun · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 2

New method of police motor-cycle patrol of arterial highways to reduce death and injury from traffic accident has been proposed to the Premier (Mr. McKell) by the NRMA and the RACA. Pointing out that the accident…

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10 Hurt in Road Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 11

Ten people were injured in road accidents in the metropolitan area yesterday. Alice Collonette, about 65, of Alfred…

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The Accident Case

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 21

THE ambulance came round the corner with its siren screaming shrilly. The head - lights bored…

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The Accident Case

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 21

THE ambulance came round the corner with its siren screaming shrilly. The head - light's bored…

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The Accident Case

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 21

THE ambulance came round the corner with its siren screaming shrilly. The head - lights bored…

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The Accident Case

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 23 April 1946 · page 21

THE ambulance came round the corner with its siren screaming shrilly. The head - lights bored…

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