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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

2,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 7 of 128

One Dead After City Collision

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

A soldier who was thrown from an Army truck in a collision between the truck and a tram at the intersection of…

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One Dead After City Collision

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

A soldier who was thrown from an Army truck in a collision between the truck and a tram at the intersection of…

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One Dead After City Collision

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

A soldier who was thrown from an Army truck in a collision between the truck and a tram at the intersection of…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of flood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of flood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of flood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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Small Boy Drowned in Floods

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 3

Seven - years - old Tony Lestrange was drowned by a rush of fiood waters in a creek near Condobolin yesterday…

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8 Injured; Carnival In Rough Sea

The Sun · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 7

Eight competitors in the Maroubra Surf Carnival, held in the roughest surf of the season, were…

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Record Rains End Long Drought Lachlan River Bursts Banks, Boy Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 5

Drought-breaking rains fell over nearly all parts of inland New South Wales yesterday. Many towns had record falls. A seven-year-old boy was drowned in a flooded creek near…

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Two Surf-boat Men Injured Boats Capsize In Treacherous Surf

Daily Mirror · Saturday 19 January 1946 · page 8

Two surf-boat crewmen are in hospital following mishaps in heavy seas at the Maroubra Surf Carnival this afternoon. They are:…

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Grandstand collapses; surf crowd injured

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 January 1946 · page 5

Eight people who were watching Maroubra Surf Club's carnival were injured yesterday when a grandstand collapsed. Another 11 men were…

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Filly badly injured in Maiden fall

The Sun · Sunday 20 January 1946 · page 3

HIDDEN CHARMS, who fell near the six furlongs post in the Maiden Three- year-old Handicap…

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Injured dog wins Harold Park race

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 January 1946 · page 37

Madame Magpie, which won the Woodstock Stake at Harold Park yesterday, was nearly scratched from the race because of injuries she received…

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Gar Strikes Light Pole. Girl Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 7

A girl was injured yesterday when the car in which she was being driven crashed into an electric light pole at the intersection of Pittwater and…

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Won High Dive Title With Injured Wrist Spectacular Dive Clinches Title for Murphy: Points Total Near Record

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 16

Eighteen-year-old Frank Murphy won the! State highboard diving championship yesterday with his left wrist heavily bandaged. Murphy injured his wrist while…

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Taxi-cab in Unusual Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 1

This taxi-cab crashed over an embankment after a collision with two other care in Coogee Ray Road, near Powell Street, Randwick, yesterday afternoon. The driver, James Markham, had to be released from his seat by ambulance men. The picture was taken…

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Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 10

NOW that more and more vehicles are crowding on the roads it is high time that both drivers and the public used the utmost discretion and…

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Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 10

NOW that more and more vehicles are crowding on the roads it is high time that both drivers and the public used the utmost discretion and…

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Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 10

NOW that more and more vehicles v are crowding on the roads it is high time that both drivers and the public used the utmost discretion and…

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Road Accidents

Daily Mirror · Monday 21 January 1946 · page 10

NOW that more and more vehicles are crowding on the roads it is high time that both drivers and the public used the utmost discretion and…

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