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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

2,297 stories in Sydney's papers · page 38 of 115

Returning From Bathurst Races, Injured

Nepean Times · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 4

Frederick Winter, of No. 19 Cox Avenue, Bond! Beach, returning on a motor bike on Monday from Bathurst motor races, came into head-on…

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Accident Proves Fatal

The Propeller · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 1

A girl named Gwendolyn Phyllis Chesham, aged 14 years, a resident of Granville, died on Wednesday night of…

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Eggs Escape in Motor Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 20

CLEVELAND (Ohio). -- Carl Sagle skidded his car into a fence in Roseville (Ohio). The car was badly damaged…

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Eggs Escape in Motor Accident

Daily Mirror · Thursday 21 April 1949 · page 20

CLEVELAND (Ohio). -- Carl Sagle skidded his car into a fence in Roseville (Ohio). The car was badly damaged…

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Two Injured; Driver Charged

The Sun · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 3

Two people were seriously injured last night when knocked down by a motor vehicle which did. not stop…

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'Rules Man Is Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 8

Promising Balmain Australian Rules backman, Frank Turner, will miss the first game against Illawarra…

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Four Injured in City Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 4

THREE men and a woman were injured when an Army pay truck and a light car collided at the corner of Market…

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Four Injured in City Crash

Daily Mirror · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 4

THREE men and a woman were injured when an Army pay truck and a light car collided at the corner of Market…

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Good Credits In Show Accident And Rain Funds

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 April 1949 · page 7

WHEN delegates from some [?] country societies met for the annual conference of the Agricultural Societies' Council, important…

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Massage Keeps King's No. 2 in Eights Injured Knee Responding

Daily Mirror · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 10

Constant massaging of an injured knee allowed King's School oarsman P. Warner to take his place in the school's eight for the Head of the River title in the Nepean today…

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Fatal Road Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 April 1949 · page 5

Police now believe that the driver of a truck which fatally injured Raphael Fuda, of Wick's Road, North Ryde, in Ryde on…

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Home-made car fatality

The Sun · Sunday 24 April 1949 · page 36

A man was killed and another injured when their sports car, with a home-made body, crashed…

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Cyclist Injured

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 3

Ronald Pike, 22, of 101 Darley Road, Manly, suffered a probable fracture of the left leg and lacerations when his motor…

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Tram Driver Unhurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 3

A tram driver escaped from his wrecked cabin without a scratch early this morning, after the…

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Tram Driver Unhurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 4

A tram driver escaped from his wrecked cabin without a scratch early this morning, after the…

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Tram Driver Unhurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 5

A tram driver escaped from his wrecked cabin without a scratch early this morning, after the…

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Tram Driver Unhurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 5

A tram driver escaped from his wrecked cabin without a scratch early this morning, after the…

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Tram Driver Unhurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 5

A tram driver escaped from his wrecked cabin without a scratch early this morning, after the…

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Tram Driver Unhurt in Collision

Daily Mirror · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 5

A tram driver escaped from his wrecked cabin without a scratch early this morning, after the…

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Bush trek with injured hiker

The Sun · Monday 25 April 1949 · page 5

KATOOMBA, Monday.-- While hiking with a party in the Mega long Valley, John Conner, 20, Knox Street,…

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