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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

1,853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 93

Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 8

MOST of the casualties in tram accidents result from flying glass. It is hoped that the new trams will be fitted…

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Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 8

MOST of the casualties in tram accidents result from flying glass. It is hoped that the new trams will be fitted…

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Tram Accidents

Daily Mirror · Thursday 24 June 1948 · page 8

MOST of the casualties in tram accidents result from flying glass. It is hoped that the new trams will he fitted…

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Two Injured in Train Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 1

VIEW OF PORTION of a damaged goods train, bring ing milk, vegetables and fish from Wauchope. (North…

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Two Injured in Goods Train Crash Loco Breaks Down Buffers Wrecked Vans End in Tangle

Daily Mirror · Friday 25 June 1948 · page 2

AN engine driver and a fireman were injured and three vans were wrecked when the engine of a goods train crashed through the buffers of a…

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Drowned in Rescue Bid N.s.w. Man Proud of Brave Son

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 26 June 1948 · page 6

A New South Wales man yesterday said he would like to help pay for a memorial which citizens of…

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Injured pilot cut from cockpit of wrecked aeroplane

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 June 1948 · page 2

INVERELL, Sat.--While men stood by with fire-extinguishers, others cut the injured pilot from the cockpit of a plane which crashed on Inverell…

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Boy killed in rifle accident

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 27 June 1948 · page 2

GLOUCESTER, Sat.--A 10-year-old boy was accidentally shot dead while watching a youth…

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200 Frenchmen Injured in Strike Disturbance

Daily Mirror · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 3

MOBILE GUARDS AND SECURITY POLICE moved in to restore order when strikers rioted in Clermont-Ferrand (France) recently. Here a Security Policeman marches off a group of arrested men. Before fighting finished, 200 were…

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Bolting tram crash at Clovelly--3 injured

The Sun · Monday 28 June 1948 · page 1

A bolting tram at Clovelly today ran half a mile down a steep hilt, jumped the rails, and bounced off a brick wall into another tram. Three people were injured. In St. Vincent's Hospital are:…

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Bus, Tram Collide Two Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 3

A bus driver and the conductress were injured early this morning when a double-decker bus and a tram…

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Too Many Tram Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 2

Serious tram accidents in Sydney are averaging one a month, apart from numerous minor collisions. The worst…

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Boy Fatally Injured When Struck by Car

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 6

ROBERT LESLIE BROM HEAD (8), Euston Rd., Alexandria, was fatally injured when a motor car knocked him…

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Train Crashes in Dark: Four Killed, 19 Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 3

Four people were killed and 19 injured when the southwest mail train crashed down a 25ft. embankment in darkness at 5 am today, near Harden (237 mile's from Sydney). The leading carriage immediately behind the engine was completely…

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Four Killed. 20 Injured in Harden Train Smash Carriages Wrecked

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 1

FOUR passengers were killed and 20 injured when the South-West mail train was derailed near Harden at 4.58 a.m. today…

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Babies Hurt In Week-End Accidents

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 1

Two babies were injured, one seriously, in district accidents on Sunday. The babies are George…

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Boy Dies After Car Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 June 1948 · page 7

A six-year-old boy was killed at 3.45 p.m. yesterday, when he was struck by a car at the corner of Mitchell Road and…

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Footballer Injured

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 4

William Taylor, playing with Rooty Hill against St. Marys, at St. Marys, on Sunday afternoon, collided with another player and was taken by Nepean…

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Car and Truck in Collision

Nepean Times · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 4

A car driven by William Reynolds (38), labourer, of 31 Evans Street, Penrith, collided with a stationary truck on the Western Road, Emu…

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Killed and Injured Killed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 1 July 1948 · page 1

Mrs. Jane Matilda Burnes, 64, of Leeton. Keith Shuttleworth, 26, married, of Wattle Street,…

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