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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

1,853 stories in Sydney's papers · page 55 of 93

News In Brief Hair Caught in Washer Girl Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 3

Beryl Musgrave, 14, of Maitland Road, Sandgate, near Newcastle, suffered severe injuries to the scalp…

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Two Dead In Road Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 4

Two men were fatally injured in road accidents in New South Wales at the week-end…

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Sunday Free Of Accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 5

Although motor traffic was heavy in the metropolitan area yesterday, there were no serious…

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U.n.o. Men Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 4

ATHENS, Tuesday.-- Two U.N.O. observers, one British and one American, were wounded during…

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Police fear missing boy may be drowned

The Sun · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 7

One of the State's biggest searches is being organised to look for three-year-old Wilfred Thomas Luke, who wandered from his shanty home at Erskine Park, 15 miles south of Parramatta, yesterday…

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Hoax Leads to Army Ambulance Accident

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 7

Army transport driver Rex Henry Cuthbert Clark, 22, suffered severe shock last night when his ambulance careered 150 yards out of control at Ryde…

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Baby Poisoned Accidentally

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 5

WAGGA, Tuesday.--Joseph Anthony Rechka, who described himself as a -manufacturing chemist, told the Wagga Coroner today, that he. definitely put a poison label on a bottle of pills sold to a…

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Baby Poisoned Accidentally

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 5

WAGGA, Tuesday.--Joseph Anthony Rechka, who described himself as a manufacturing chemist, told the Wagga Coroner today that he definiteli put a poison label on a bottle of pills sold to a…

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Baby Poisoned Accidentally

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 5

WAGGA, Tuesday.-- Joseph Anthony Rechka, who described himself as a manufacturing chemist, told the Wagga Coroner today that he definitely put a' poison label on a bottle of pills sold to a…

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Death of Baby Was Accidental

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2

WAGGA, Tuesday.--Joseph Anthony Rechka, who described himself as a manufacturing chemist, told the Wagga Coroner today, that he definitely put a poison label on a bottle of pills sold to a…

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Baby Poisoned Accidentally

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 5

WAGGA, Tuesday.-- Joseph Anthony Rechka, who described himself as a manufacturing chemist, told the Wagga Coroner today that he definitely put a poison label on a bottle of pills sold to a…

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Four Injured In Road Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

FOUR persons were injured when two motors cars and a lorry were involved in a smash on. Princes Highway…

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Five Injured In Road Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

FIVE persons were injured A when two motor cars and a lorry were involved in ' a smash on Princes Hiehway…

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Four Injured In Road Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

FOUR persons were injured when two motor cars and a lorry were involved in a smash on Princes Highway…

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Four Injured In Road Smash

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

FOUR persons were injured A when two motor cars and a lorry were involved in a smash on Princes Highway…

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5 injured in triple smash

The Sun · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 6

Five people were injured, two seriously, when a lorry and two cars collided in Prince's Highway today…

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Stop Press Four Reported Injured

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 16

Four persons were reported injured in a motor smash which occurred today on Princes Highway between the Waterfall Sanatorium and…

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Bus and Tram Collide Four Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 3

Four people were slightly injured last night when a crowded double-deckcr bus and a tram collided in Military…

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Child Poisoned "By Accident"

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 August 1948 · page 4

WAGGA, Tuesday.--The District Coroner (Mr. A. J. Redman) today found that Lois Wilma Kaiser, aged 14 months,…

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Train Fatality

Nepean Times · Thursday 12 August 1948 · page 3

George Whatmond (67), an old aged pensioner, who was formerly camped at Kingswood, was fatally injured by a train at Vineyard on Thursday…

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