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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

2,425 stories in Sydney's papers · page 20 of 122

Death At 107 After Accident

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Wednesday-Last rites of the Mohammedan faith were pertomied at the City Morgue…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash at Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash at Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash aff Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash-at Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash at Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this; morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash at Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Jockey Seriously Injured In Smash

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 7

Apprentice jockey Sid Bundy (19), injured in a sensational race smash at Gosford on Wednesday, was knocked from his horse on Liverpool Rd. this morning and now lies gravely ill with head injuries in…

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Injured Man, Wife Trapped 3 Hours

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 11

BRISBANE, Thurs.--Men with crowbars, stood in waist-deep mud and water for three hours today before they could release a badly injured grazier and his wife from a…

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Signalman in Train Accident

Daily Mirror · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 3

Clarence Norman Rogers (24), railway signalman at Gamboola Station, between Borenore and Molong, was run…

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Trains in head-on collision

The Sun · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 1

NEW YORK, Friday.-- Two passenger trains of Long Island railway collided head-on tonight…

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Injured Aust. pilot held as hostage

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).--The wife of an Australian pilot held in Pakistan said yesterday that her husband was kept under armed guard…

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Two Injured in Car-bus Crash

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 8

NEWCASTLE, Fri. -- A bus conductor and a car driver were injured in a collision between a double-decker bus and…

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Injured Man Called All Night for Aid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 2

ORANGE, Saturday.--A motor -cyclist who had lain injured all night on the road between Spring…

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Injured Man Called All Night for Aid

Daily Mirror · Saturday 18 February 1950 · page 2

ORANGE, Saturday.--A motor - cyclist who had lain injured all night on the road between Spring…

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Woman Saved From Drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 February 1950 · page 8

A 17-year-old youth yesterday dived into Cook's River and rescued a woman who,…

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Jockey Injured

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 February 1950 · page 21

AMBULANCE OFFICERS lifting apprentice jockey J. Rincheval into an ambulance at Canterbury races yesterday. Rincheval was thrown heavily when his Tynedale, fell at the furlong post in the Flying Handicap. Rincheval was not seriously injured, and was allowed to go home after treatment…

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Lost men may be injured SEATTLE

The Sun · Sunday 19 February 1950 · page 3

LAND and air search yesterday failed to find five missing US airmen…

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29 killed and 100 injured in head on train crash

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 19 February 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sat.--At least 29 people were killed and 100 injured last night in the nation's worst railway disaster for three years…

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Figures in Drowning Tragedy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 1

Lifesaver Jim Peryman, of North Cronulla lifesaving club, who lost his life yesterday in an attempt to save Daphne Knowles, right, from drowning…

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