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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1946

2,545 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 128

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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Police Seek Truck After Collision

The Sun · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 3

Police are searching for a red Ford V8 truck, which was not stopped after a collision with a bus on Fig Tree Bridge early…

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Man Injured When Lorry Bumps Bus

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 5

WHEN a lorry bumped a crowded bus which it was passing on the narrow Fig Tree bridge this morning, a man in the bus was slightly…

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England, America Freezing Temperatures Lowest For 12 Months Accidents Due to Ice

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 22 January 1946 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday. -- While N.S.W. is sweltering in the heat, England and America are suffering their worst freeze for a…

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Plane Crash, Pilot Drowned

The Sun · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

When a Firefly aircraft crashed into the sea while returning to the aircraft carrier. HMS Glory, in Melbourne yesterday,…

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Airman Drowned at Night Bathing Party

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 7

DUBBO, Wednesday.--An L.A.C. in the Air Force, John Benson McKinnon (27). of Campsie, was drowned last night while swimming…

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Airman Drowned at Night Bathing Party

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 7

DUBBO, Wednesday.--An L.A.C. in the Air Force. John Benson McKinnon (27); of Campsie, was drowned last night while swimming…

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Spine Injured in Diving Mishap

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 6

When he slipped from the diving tower at Granville baths and struck another swimmer as he hit the water, Lawrence Tracey (16), of…

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Father, Son Hurt in Car Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

A MAN and his four-years-old son were injured when struck by a car in Shepherd St., Ryde, yesterday. Police were told the boy wandered…

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Father, Son Hurt in Car Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 3

A MAN and his four-years-old son were injured when struck by a car in Shepherd St., Ryde, yesterday. Police were told the boy wandered…

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Father, Son Hurt in Car Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 23 January 1946 · page 15

A MAN and his four-years-old son were injured when struck by a car in Shepherd St., Ryde, yesterday. Police were told the boy wandered…

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Road Fatality Returned Soldier Killed

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

Death from injuries suffered when his motor cycle and a lorry collided on the Western Road, prospect, on Monday, came to Wilfred George…

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Pea Rifle Fatality While Hunting Fowls

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

A very esteemed family of Penrith has been sadly bereaved by a pearifle accident that happened on Sunday. John Thomas McBride (14), son of…

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Drowning at Wallacia a Midnight Swim After a Dance

Nepean Times · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

FOUR workmates of Warragamba Dam went swimming near the ridge at Wallacia about midnight on Friday and one of…

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Boy, 10, Fatally Injured By Shotgun

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 4

MILDURA, Wednesday.--When Mrs. N. Howse returned from shopping to her home on the river bank, Mildura, yesterday evening, she found her son,…

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First Aid Rushed to Injured Airmen After Plane Crashes in Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 24 January 1946 · page 1

Len: When this R.N. Sen li re landed on the British carrier Indefatigable in Melbourne yesterday it overshot the flight deck and crashed info the barrier, Right: A doctor from the Indefatigable being transferred to the destroyer Tuscan, which picked up the…

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Saved From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 3

Brian Webb, 101 Wilson St., Redfern, who was found in Manly Pool today apparently dead, but revived after teams of men had…

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Saved From Drowning

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 3

Brian Webb, 101 Wilson St., Redfern, who was found in Macly Pool today apparently dead, but revived after teams of men had…

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'Drowned' Boy of 6 Recovers

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 10

An apparently dead boy was restored to life at Manly this afternoon after four cyclinders of carbogen gas were…

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'Drowned' Boy of 6 Recovers

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 January 1946 · page 10

An apparently dead boy was restored to life at Manly this afternoon after four cyclinders of carbogen gas were…

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