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Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 115

Seven Injured in Bus Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when the upper pure of a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

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Seven Injured in Bus Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when the upper part of a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

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Seven Injured in Bus Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when the upper part of a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

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Seven Injured in Bus Chash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when the upper part of a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Seven Injured in Bus Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when the upper part of a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Seven Injured in Bus Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when the upper part of a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Seven Injured in Bus Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 4

Seven persons were injured when She upper part of,a double-decker bus was ripped open by the awning of a shop in Bridge Rd., Glebe, at 8.30 a.m. today…

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Man Injured by Lightning on Golf Links

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 February 1949 · page 1

In a thunderstorm which broke over Sydney at 4.20 p.m. yesterday-- A man was struck by lightning…

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Injured in Smash

The Sun · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 3

James Nelson, 28, Victoria. Road, Drummoyne, PMG employee, was seriously injured today when, a motor car and…

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Pedestrian, Pillion Passenger Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

ROBERT JOHN SIMMONS (53), Seaforth Ave.. Crorsulla received a compound fractured right leg when he was…

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Pedestrian, Pillion Passenger Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

ROBERT JOHN SIMMONS (53), Seaforth Ave., Cronulla received a compound fractured right leg when he was…

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Pedestrian, Pillion Passenger Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 5

ROBERT JOHN SIMMONS (53), Seaforth Ave., Cronulla received a compound fractured right leg when he was…

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Workmen Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 3

TWO workmen were seriously injured in accidents in Sydney yesterday and are now in Sydney Hospital…

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Workmen Hurt in Accidents

Daily Mirror · Saturday 12 February 1949 · page 3

TWO workmen were seriously injured in accidents in Sydney yesterday and are now in Sydney Hospital…

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Playmates Of Boy Silent On Drowning

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 1

Peter Miles Robertson, 10, of Chatfield Avenue, Enfield, was drowned while swimming in a 12-feet clay waterhole at Enfield…

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Baby-food diet for injured hiker

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 3

Injured hiker Sean John Ryan, lying exhausted in a cave on the 2000ft. Wild Goat Plateau, is being fed baby food and eggflips to strengthen him for a third rescue attempt…

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Two Riders Injured in Speedway Crash

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 26

Two speedway riders were injured in a crash at Sydney Showground Speedway last night. The injured men are…

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Injured Boy Proposes in Sign Language

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 5

Francis Jensen, 18, of Campsie, who shot himself in the breast while he was cleaning a rifle on Tuesday, yesterday proposed to his girl friend in sign language -- and was accepted. Jensen, who is in…

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Boy sees friend drowned; is afraid to tell

The Sun · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 48

FRIEND of a 10-year-old boy who was drowned in a storm-water channel at Belfields yesterday went to the pictures without telling his parents of the tragedy. The dead boy was Peter Miles…

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2 killed in road accidents

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 13 February 1949 · page 5

Two people were killed last night in car accidents at Maitland and Muswellbrook. Cecil Robert Davies, 38,…

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