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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

2,464 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 124

Shooting Fatality Reg. Boyling. Smithfield

The Biz · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 7

The accidental discharge of a rifle at Tenterfield, resulted in the death of Mr. Reg Boyling, who resided with his wife and family…

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9 Injured As Trams Collude

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

A tram-driver had his right leg shockingly injured and eight passengers were injured when…

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9 Injured As Trams Collide

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

A tram-driver had his right leg shockingly injured and eight passengers were injured when…

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Tram Driver Seriously Injured; Eight Passengers Hurt In Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

A tram-driver had his right leg shockingly injured and eight passengers were injured when two trams collided near the corner of Parramatfa Rd., and Abercrombie St., Broadway today. Many other passengers…

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Tram Driver Seriously Injured; Eight Passengers Hurt In Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

A tram-driver had his right leg shockingly injured and eight passengers were injured when two trams collided near the corner Of Parramatta Rd., and Ahercrombie St., way, today. Many other passengers…

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Tram Driver Seriously Injured; Eight Passengers Hurt In Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

A tram-driver had his right leg shockingly injured and eight passengers were injured when two trams collided near the corner of Parramatta Rd., and Abercrombie St., Many other passengers were dazed by the impact…

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Tram Driver Seriously Injured; Eight Passengers Hurt In Smash

Daily Mirror · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 2

A tram-driver had his right leg shockingly injured and eight passengers were injured when two trams collided near the corner of Parramatta Rd., and Abercrombie St., Broadway, today. Many other passengers were dazed by the impact…

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Noted Jesuit Psychologist Victim of a Car Accident

Catholic Weekly · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 3

LONDON.—Father. John Leycester King, S.J.. recognised as the leading priest-psychologist in Britain and one of the best known in the world, has died in London as a result of an automobile…

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Patient Given Wrong Blood A doctor said in the City Coroner's Court yesterday that he had accidentally administered the wrong type of blood in a transfusion to a patient at Balmain and District Hospital on December 12

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 5

The Coroner, Mr. E. J. Forrest, was inquiring into the death of the patient, Mrs. Thelma…

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Road Accidents Address to Rotary Club

The Biz · Thursday 29 January 1953 · page 1

An officer of the N.R.M.A. had a most interested audience at the weekly meeting of Liverpool Rotary Club last Thursday, when he…

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Fear theory in dam drowning

The Sun · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 2

Detective-sergeant Watson told Ryde Coroner Smythe today he thought the younger of two boys drowned in a dam on December 18 might have jumped into the dam through fear of the older boy…

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Two Drowned, Girl Saved

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Thursday.—An 11-year-old boy saved his sister but his father and a playmate…

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Man, Boy Drowned In Creek

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 2

ALBURY. Fri. --Two children Saw their father drown in an effort to rescue a…

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Man, Boy Drowned In Creek

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 2

ALBURY, Fri. --Two children saw their father drown in an effort to rescue a 10- years-old boy who grot…

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Man, Boy Drowned In Creek

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 3

ALBURY, Fri. -- Two children saw their f- ther drown in an effort to rescue a…

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Man, Boy Drowned In Creek

Daily Mirror · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 2

ALBURY, Fri. -- Two children saw their father drown in an effort to rescue a…

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A.I.S. Secretary In Motor Accident

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 30 January 1953 · page 7

MR. JOHN HANLEY, of the staff of the Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W., and secretary of the A.I.S. Society's State…

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Boy, Sister Drowned

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 January 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Fri.--A six-years-old boy and his five-years-old sister drowned today in an irrigation…

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Yesterday's Courts Doubts on golf course drowning

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 31 January 1953 · page 10

The Ryde Coroner (Mr. Smyth, S.M.) yesterday was unable to decide whether a boy's drowning was accidental or not…

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Nine Injured In Two Accidents

Truth · Sunday 1 February 1953 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Saturday.—Nine persons were injured in two road accidents at Wentworth Falls this afternoon. In a head-on collision…

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