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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

2,464 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 124

Mechanic Injured

Daily Mirror · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 10

Mouse (E. Peard) won the first heat of the N.S.W. 255 cubic inch restricted speedboat…

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Tribute to drowned Dr

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 4

CANBERRA, Fri.--The House of Representatives today sent a message of sympathy to the Clerk of…

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Lottery win car crashes. 3 injured

The Sun · Saturday 7 March 1953 · page 2

A car bought from a £12,000 lottery win was wrecked last night when it struck a telegraph pole in Parramatta Rd., Five Dock,…

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Challenge Led to Drowning

Truth · Sunday 8 March 1953 · page 40

MILDURA, Sat. — Thomas Honeyman (48) of the Gill Memorial Home,…

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20 hurt in train collision MELBOURNE, Sat

The Sun · Sunday 8 March 1953 · page 64

SHUNTING train engines collided with the Adelaide express and injured 20 people…

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Dalray may not be badly injured

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 8 March 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sat. -- New Zealand champion racehorse Dalray which went lame after haying passed the finishing post in the Ercildoune Stakes at Flemington today is not believed to be seriously injured…

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Aldershot Spoils "Match" Dalray injured near finish

The Sun · Sunday 8 March 1953 · page 25

THE expected match race between Dalray and Hydrogen in the Ercildoune Stakes at Flemington yesterday ended in a "boilover"…

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Three Injured in Collision

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 4

Three people were injured when these two cars collided at the corner of Dobroyd Parade and Mortley Road, Haberfield, yesterday morning…

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Man Drowned In Quarry At Parramatta

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 1

Bruce Stanley Cockburn, 21, of Grose Street, Parramatta, was drowned yesterday in a disused quarry in…

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Three injured in gasworks explosion

The Sun · Monday 9 March 1953 · page 1

PARKES, Monday.-- Three men suffered burns and shock and the gasometer was…

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Shunter injured

The Sun · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 10

James S. Williams, 57, of Cullotta St., Greenwich, head shunter at the Alexandria goods yards,…

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Fatally Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

An unidentified man was fatally injured today when he fell from a fast- moving electric train near Redfern…

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Fatally Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

An unidentified man was fatally Injured today when he fell from a fast- moving electric train near Redfern…

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Fatally Injured

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 3

An unidentified man was fatally injured today when he fell from a fast-moving electric train near Redfern…

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Man Injured by Tram

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 4

John Groves, 65, who works at the North Sydney Hotel, was knocked down and critically injured by a tram…

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Fatally Injured in Train Fall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 17

An unidentified man was fatally injured today when he fell from a fast-moving electric train near Redfern…

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Fatally Injured in Train Fall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 5

An unidentified man was fatally injured today when he fell from a fast-moving electric train near Redfern…

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Fatally Injured in Train Fall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 5

An unidentified man was fatally injured today when he fell from a fast -moving electric train near Redfern…

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Fatally Injured in Train Fall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 17

An unidentified man was fatally injured today, when he "fell from a .fast- moving electric train near Redfern…

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Fatally Injured in Train Fall

Daily Mirror · Tuesday 10 March 1953 · page 5

An unidentified man was fatally injured today when he fell from a, fast- moving electric train near Redfern…

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