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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 115

Accident Victim Asleep Two Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A 32-years-old hospstai patient at Framingham, Massachusetts, is starting his third year of a life that is like death. He has been unconscious since a motor accident just over two years ago…

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Accident Victim Asleep Two Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 10

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A 32-years-old hospital patient at Framingham, Massachusetts, is starting his third year of a life that is like death. He has been unconscious since a motor accident just over two years ago…

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Accident Victim Asleep Two Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 10

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A 32-years-old hospital patient at Framingham, Massachusetts, is starting his third year of a life that is like death. He has been unconscious since a motor accident just over, two years ago…

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Accident Victim Asleep Two Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 10

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A 32-years-old hospital patient at Framingham, Massachusetts, is starting his third year of a life that is like death. He has been unconscious since a motor accident just over two years ago…

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Pits Strike Over Loco Man Driver Involved In Accidents Limits to Certificate

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

MINERS at Lambton, John Darling and Burwood Pits are on strike because of the refusal of the State Mines Department to grant an unconditional…

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Accident Victim Asleep Two Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 10

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A 32-years-old hospital patient at Framingham, Massachusetts, is starting his third year of a life that is like death. He has been unconscious since a motor accident just over two years ago…

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Pits Strike Over Loco Man Driver Involved In Accidents Limits to Certificate

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 2

MINERS at Lambton, John Darling and Burwood Pits are on strike because of the refusal of the State Mines Department to grant an unconditional…

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Accident Victim Asleep Two Years

Daily Mirror · Thursday 17 February 1949 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thursday.--A 32-years-old hospital patient at Framingham Massachusetts, is starting his third year of a life that is like death. He has been unconscious since a motor accident just over two years ago…

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Scout Hanged Himself Accidentally

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 February 1949 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday. —A Sea Scout accidentally hanged himself to-day while training with a rope for a…

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Four Injured In "Family" Cycle Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 3

A brother and sister were injured in a motor cycle accident yesterday, and two brothers were badly hurt in a…

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Speed Star Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 9

Queensland Speedway rider Keith Ryan narrowly escaped serious injury when he collided with Bill…

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Fire Fatality Bores Water Supply Need CARRINGTON.—

Tribune · Saturday 19 February 1949 · page 7

Last week’s tragic fire which destroyed the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hunt and burnt to death their 19…

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14 Die In Air Collision

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Fourteen persons were killed today when an R.A.F. Anson training plane collided with a Dakota. The Dakota, with six…

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14 Killed In Air Collision

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 1

LONDON, Feb. 19 (A.A.P.).— Fourteen people were killed when a British European Airways Dakota and a Royal Air Force…

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Moth Plane Crashes Youth Injured

The Sunday Herald · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

A Hornet Moth trainer plane carrying two brothers crashed on the road bordering Casino aerodrome a few…

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Men's ears torn off in triple collision

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 1

Two men had their ears torn off when three motor vehicles collided on Great Western Highway, Pendle Hill, last…

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14 killed in plane collision LONDON

The Sun · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 1

FOURTEEN people were killed when two planes collided in mid-air near Coventry today…

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Five injured when jeep and trailer overturn

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

Five men were injured when a jeep and trailer overturned on Nelson's Bay Road, one mile from Williamtown, near Newcastle yesterday…

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Car Burnt In Triple Collision Six Hurt in Road Crash

Truth · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 1

Six persons were injured—three critically—when a sedan car, after colliding with a lorry, crashed into a utility truck and caught fire on the Great Western Highway, Pendle Hill, last night…

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Wrecked After Collision Police dash to restore ear after car crash

The Sun · Sunday 20 February 1949 · page 3

A POLICE motor cyclist carried a severed ear five miles from Pendle Hill to Parramatta last night. The ear was torn from a man in a…

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