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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

2,272 stories in Sydney's papers · page 39 of 114

Ambulances Rush 14 to Hospital After Collision 20 Hurt In Tram Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 2

Twenty persons were injured when a tram ploughed into the back of a stationary tram in Alison Rd., Randwick today. The smash occurred when a…

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Rail Collision From Page 1 Sad Scenes At Morgue After Train Smash

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 3

There were harrowing scenes at the Parramatta District Hospital morgue yesterday when relatives identified the bodies of those killed in the tragic train smash at Berala. Some of the bodies…

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Ambulances Rush 14 to Hospital After Collision 20 Hurt In Tram Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 2

Twenty persons were injured when a tram ploughed into the back of a stationary tram in Alison Rd., Randwick today. The smash occurred when a…

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Accidental Death Finding

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 26

The City Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest) today found that Walter Scott (65), Bridge Rd., Glebe, who was…

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Accidental Death Finding

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 2

The City Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest) today found that Walter Scott (65), Bridge Rd., Glebe, who "was…

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Accidental Death Finding

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 5

The City Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest) today found that Walter Scott (65), Bridge Rd., Glebe, who was…

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Accidental Death Finding

Daily Mirror · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 5

The City Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest) today found that Walter Scott (65), Bridge Rd., Glebe, who was…

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Four in Car Accident

The Biz · Thursday 8 May 1952 · page 6

Four men were injured when a car turned over and caught alight on Campbelltown Rcad, Ingleburn, last Sunday. They were…

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Fifteen Injured In Tram Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 4

Fifteen people were injured yesterday morning when a tram crashed into the back of a stationary…

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Escapees May Have Drowned

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Police fear that four escapees from French Island Penal Settlement…

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Escapees May Have Drowned

Daily Mirror · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Friday.-- Police fear that four escapees from French Island Penal Settlement…

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Seaman Rescued After Mid-atlantic Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 1

Sailors on board the U.S. aircraft-carrier Wasp stretching down to haul oil-covered apprentice seaman James F. McIntyre, of the U.S.S. Hobson, from the sea, after the two warships collided in the midAtlantic during night manoeuvres. A total of 176 lost their lives in the disaster…

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Drunken Driver's 4 Accidents

The Sun · Friday 9 May 1952 · page 3

A motor-driver who became involved, in four successive accidents was "paralytic"…

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Cyclist Injured

The Sun · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Saturday. -- A motor cyclist, Walter Horn, 17, of Brighton Av., Toronto, suffered…

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Sydney's Newest Tram Burnt Out in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 1

The interior of Sydney's newest tram, which had been in service only a week, after it collided with a truck and caught fire in Crystal Street, Petersham, at 5.15 p.m. yesterday. Nobody was injured, but the accident held up trams on the Rozelle-Canterbury line for more than an hour. The Chief Traffic Manager of the Road Transport and Tramways Department, Mr. W. L. Carter, said the tram's interior fittings…

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4 Injured In 3-Car Smash

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 1

Four persons were rushed to Parramatta Hospital after a car had caught fire in a collision…

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Two Die, Two Injured In Vic. Crash

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday. —Two men were killed and a man and a woman critically injured when a sports…

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Man's Injured Body in Sea: Fisherman's Find Near Gap

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 1

The body of a man injured about the head was found flouting in the sea 500 yards off The Gap at Watson's Bay today. Police say the man died…

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Man's Injured Body in Sea: Fisherman's Find Near Gap

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 1

The body of a man injured about the head was found floating in the sea 500 yards off The Gap at Watson9s Bay today. Police say the man died…

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Man's Injured Body in Sea: Fisherman's Find Near Gap

Daily Mirror · Saturday 10 May 1952 · page 1

The body of a man injured about the head was found flouting in the sea 500 yards off The Gap at Watson's Bay today. Police say the man died…

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