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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

2,425 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 122

Truck overturns after collision

The Sun · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 6

Driver of a lorry escaped injury when his truck turned over twice following a collision with a bus in Wardell…

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Six injures in collision

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 12

Six persons were injured, two of them critically, when a car and a taxi collided on the Hume…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 3

John" Birnie (36), salesman, Erang St., Carss Park, Blakehurst, received fatal injuries when two cars came into…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 10

John Bimie (36), salesman, Erang' St., Carss Park, Blakehurst, received fetal injuries when two cars came into…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 15

John Birnie (36), salesman, Erang St., Carss Park, Blakehurst, received fetal injuries when two cars came into…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 3

John Birnie (36), salesman, Erang St., Carss Park, Blakehurst, received fatal injuries when' two cars came into…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 15

John Bimie (36),' salesman, Erang St., Carss Park, Blakehurst, received fetal injuries when two cars came into…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 3

John Birnie (36), salesman, Erang St., Carss Park, Blakehurst, received fatal injuries when two cars came into…

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One Dead, Two Hurt in Road Collision

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 3

John Birnie (36), salesman, Erang St., Carss Park,. Blake-hurst, received fatal injuries when two cars came into…

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Didn't report road accident; fined £6

The Sun · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 7

Herbert Kennis Suttor, of Echareena, who, police said, refused to report a road accident because he thought it…

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£740 for Victim of Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

Victim of a freak accident caused by a plane near the Shoalhaven River in 1947 was awarded £740…

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£740 for Victim of Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

Victim of a freak accident caused' by a plane near the Shcalhaven River in 1947 was awarded £740…

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£740 for Victim of Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

Victim of a freak accident caused by a plane near the Shoalhaveii River in 1947 was awarded £740…

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£740 for Victim of Accident

Daily Mirror · Wednesday 22 March 1950 · page 2

Victim of a freak accident caused by a plane near the Shoaihaven River in 1947 was awarded £740…

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Baby saved from drowning

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 27

CASINO, Thursday. -- The 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gooley, of Centre Street Casing was found by…

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Boy Drowned Cabramatta Tragedy

The Biz · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 3

Reymond Green, aged 10 years, of Hume Highway, Cabramatta, was drowned in a creek at the rear of Lamm's pad[?]ock, Cabramatta, last Friday afternoon…

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400 injured in Italian strike riots

The Sun · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 11

ROME, Thursday.--One man was killed and 400 hurt yesterday in a 12-hour general strike which the Government described as "a total failure."…

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Cyclist's Accident in Rain

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 6

Max Ridley, of Derby Street, Penrith, was riding a bicycle in High Street, near Wurth Street, on Saturday night last in the rain. There he…

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Loco. Firemen's Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 6

Alex Roxborough, who resides in Frazer Road, Springwood, and is a loco, fireman at Valley Heights, had ceased work in the early hours of this…

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Accident in High Street

Nepean Times · Thursday 23 March 1950 · page 6

Betty Byrnes (14), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Byrnes, of Castlereagh Road, Penrith, came in to Penrith on her bicycle on Friday morning last…

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