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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

2,272 stories in Sydney's papers · page 50 of 114

Big Accident Toll In U.S

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK. Monday (B.U.P.). -- United States Whitsun holiday deaths totalled 378 up to last…

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Big Accident Toll In U.S.

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK. Monday (B.U.P.). -- United States Whitsun holiday deaths totalled 378 up to last…

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Driver Hurt In Tram Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 6

A tram driver was injured and traffic was held up for 20 minutes when a tram and,a…

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Big Accident Toll In U.S

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK. Monday (B.U.P.). -- United States Whitsun holiday deaths totalled 378 up to last…

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Driver Hurt In Tram Accident

Daily Mirror · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 4

A tram driver was injured and traffic was held up for 20 minutes when a tram and a…

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Boy Drowned in Backyard

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 9

NEWCASTLE. Tuesday --Peter John Gourlay (2) was drowned in a drainage sump in the backyard…

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Boy Drowned in Backyard

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 9

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday -- Peter John Gourlay (2) was drowned in a drainage sump in the backyard…

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Boy Drowned in Backyard

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday. -- Peter John Gourlay (2) was drowned in a drainage sump in the backyard…

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Injured Man Left Dying on Roadway

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 9

The Coroner (Mr. E. J. Forrest) today strongly condemned the action of a hit-run driver who left an injured…

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Gill, Paul to Replace Injured Men

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 20

Rugby League selectors last night chose forwards Charlie Gill and Albert Paul to replace two injured men in Australia's…

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Injured Hansen to Miss Test: Donoghue in

The Sun · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 24

Front-rower Kevin Hansen today was ruled unfit for the first Rugby League Test against NZ next Monday. He has been replaced by Denis…

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Air Accident Compensation

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 14

The preparation of legislation to protect the rights of people who suffered injury by aircraft was…

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Air Accident Compensation

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 14

The preparation of legislation to protect the rights' of people who suffered injury, by aircraft was…

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Air Accident Compensation

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 14

The preparation of legislation to protect the rights of people who suffered injury by aircraft was…

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Boy Drowned in Backyard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Tuesday.— Peter John Gourlay, aged 2, was drowned in a drainage sump in the backyard of his…

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Vic. Jackson Injured

The Sun · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 34

LONDON, Wednesday. -- Australian Vic Jackson today will miss a championship cricket match for the first time since he joined Leicestershire in 1946…

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Railway Crossing Accidents

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 2

Sir,—Through the obvious failure of human organisation, at a well-known death-trap of a rail crossing, seven valuable…

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Car and Bicycles in Collision. Man Killed, Son Injured

The Propeller · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 1

A man was killed instantly and his son, aged 11 years, was injured when a car and two bicycles came into collision at…

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Collision at Intersection

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 2

Ronald Walter Burgess, Panania, pleaded guilty at Penrith Court on May 28, to driving negligently on the Western Rd.,…

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Collision Between Car and Stolen Utility

The Biz · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 4

A stolen H[?]den utility crashed head-on into a Ford Prefect car driven by Mr. Frank Henshaw of Cunningha[?] Street, Fairfield, on…

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