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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

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Road Deaths Fatality At North Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 4

Tasman Tonks, 50, of Bay Street, Crows Nest, an employee of the North Shore Gas Co., Ltd., was fatally injured at Crow's Nest…

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Six People Injured by Bomb Man Hurls Missile On Verandah Lacerated Victims

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 4

CAIRNS, Tuesday. -- Six people were injured when a bomb was thrown into a house at Cairns last night…

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Six People Injured by Bomb Missile Hurled on Verandah Man Seen in Street

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 4

CAIRNS, Tuesday. -- Six people were injured when a bomb was thrown into a house at Cairns last night…

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Huge Accident Death-Rate In U.S.

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 15 January 1946 · page 13

WASHINGTON, Tuesday. -- World War II cost America 261,000 battlefront fatalities, while homefront accidents in…

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Girl Suicides After Sweetheart's Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--A 16-year-old girl whose childhood sweetheart was drowned on Sunday, today shot herself at her home. The girl, Shirley Allison Dixon,…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 2

DRIVERS of two brick lorries which collided in Cumberland Rd., Auburn, today, were later admitted to Auburn Hospital. They are Percy…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 2

DRIVERS of two brick lorries which collided in Cumberland Rd., Auburn, today, were later admitted to Auburn Hospital. They are Percy…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 9

DRIVERS of two brick lorries which collided in Cumberland Rd., Auburn, today, were later admitted to Auburn Hospital. They are Percy…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 9

DRIVERS Of two brick lorries which collided in Cumberland Rd., Auburn, today, were later admitted to Auburn Hospital. They are Percy…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 9

DRIVERS of two brick lorries which collided in Cumberland Rd., Auburn. today, were later admitted to Auburn Hospital. They are Percy…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 9

DRIVERS of two brick lorries which collided in Cumberland Rd., Auburn, today, were later admitted to Auburn Hospital. They are Percy…

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Jet Plane Collision Kills Two

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 14

LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Air Ministry announces that two Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft collided over the…

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Jet Plane Collision Kills Two

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Air Ministry announces that two Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft collided over the…

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Jet Plane Collision Kills Two

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 14

LONDON, Wednesday.-- The Air Ministry announces that two Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft collided over the…

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Jet Plane Collision Kills Two

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 14

LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Air Ministry announces that two Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft collided over the…

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Jet Plane Collision Kills Two

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 15

LONDON, Wednesday. -- The Air Ministry announces that two Gloster Meteor jet-propelled aircraft collided over the…

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Man Stabbed Another Critically Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 3

One man was stabbed with a butcher's knife in Surry Hills, and another was found with serious head injuries in a house in East…

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Peak-hour Tram Collision on Harbour Bridge

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

SCENES AFTER ACCIDENT ON HARBOUR BRIDGE…

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1 Killed, 5 Injured in Explosion

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 11

BRISBANE, Tuesday.--Six persons were wounded, one fatally, when a grenade exploded on the rear verandah of a home at…

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50 Hurt in Bridge Collision Peak-Hour Tram Crash

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1946 · page 1

Fifty persons were injured in a peak-hour tram collision on the Harbor Bridge last night. Twenty-one were taken to Hospital. Six were…

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