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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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3 injured in rough 'Rules match

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 July 1948 · page 23

Three players suffered severe facial injuries during yesterday's 'Rules match between Newtown and Eastern Suburbs at Erskineville Oval…

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3 injured in smash at crossing

The Sun · Sunday 4 July 1948 · page 2

A MAN, his wife and daughter were injured in a level-crossing accident at Port Kembla…

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Man, 65, Killed in Car Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 4 July 1948 · page 3

Arthur Wright, about 65, of Willarong Road, Caringbah, was killed instantly when a car knocked him down in Willarong…

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One Dead, Six Injured In Triple Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 1

One man was killed and six persons injured when a car, a motor-truck, and a motor-cycle collided…

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Weekend Gassing Fatality

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 4

A 91-years-old man, who is believed to have forgotten to turn off the tap of the gas ring when supplies…

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Stop Press Detective Injured

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 12

Well-known detective, Const. J. Miller, was seriously injured when a police patrol car uprooted a tree and overturned in Victoria Rd.,…

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Freakish Accidents in Freeze

Daily Mirror · Monday 5 July 1948 · page 4

CANBERRA, Monday.-- Many freak accidents, none serious, occurred in bleakish Canberra weather…

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Three Die After Collision

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 9

Three people are dead as the result of a collision, between a motor lorry, a car,…

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Two Police Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 4

Two policemen were injured, one seriously, when a police car skidded on Victoria Road. Rydalmere during light…

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39 Die in Air Collision Planes Crash In Flames

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 3

LONDON, July 5 (A.A.P.). —Thirty-nine people were killed yesterday afternoon when an R.A.F. Transport…

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A.W.U. Activities N.S.W. Branch Compensation for A.W.U. MEMBERS £825 Compensation Obtained for Widow Onion's Great Fight for Member Injured Whilst Working for the Standard Portland Cement Company

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 7 July 1948 · page 10

Our member, the late James Thomas Keighley Hawkins, writes Branch Secretary R. W. Wilson, was employed by the Standard Portland Cement Co. Ltd. as a laborer…

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Collision Holds Up Trams

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 1

BOTH INWARD AND OUTWARD tram traffic on the Botany tram route was disorganised this morning through tram collisions. The tram pictured here came into collision with an electric cable-laying truck belonging to the…

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Stop Press Bus Collision

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 16

Twenty-two people were injured, five of them being taken to hospital, when two double-decker buses collided at the intersection of Warners…

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Woman Injured in Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 1

A woman passenger was injured when two doubledeckey buses came into collision at the corner of…

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Woman Seriously Injured in Fall

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 5

LOUISA GROUNDS, (about 60) was badly injured whet she fell down a flight of stairs at her home in Shepherd St.,…

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Woman Seriously Injured in Fall

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 5

LOUISA GROUNDS (about 60) was badly injured when she fell down a flight of stairs at her home in Shepherd St.,…

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4 injured as buses collide

The Sun · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 2

Four people were injured and passengers were hurled from their seats when two double-decker buses…

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Trucks in Collision. Man Killed at Hurstville

The Propeller · Thursday 8 July 1948 · page 2

When Stanley Alfred Chandler, aged 35 years, a resident of Hattersley Street, Banksia, was driving a utility truck last…

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Fatal Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thursday.— William Beckingham, 50, of Lane Cove, Sydney, was killed when a car collided with a truck on the…

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Man Drowned in Antarctic

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 July 1948 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--A member of the Australian Antarctic Expedition was drowned while ski-ing at Macquarie…

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