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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1957

112 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 6

Smithfield Man Injured Pistol Accidentally Discharged

The Biz · Wednesday 13 November 1957 · page 23

Mr Driald Field, of 20 Murray Street, Smithfield, was accidentally sho in the leg when a 32 automatic revolver has was…

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Painter Injured in Fall

The Biz · Wednesday 13 November 1957 · page 23

An elderly painter was injured when he fell from a scaffolding at Moorebank last Monday. The man, Harold…

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Three Injured in Culvert Crash

The Biz · Wednesday 13 November 1957 · page 23

A young married couple and a seventeen-years-old girl were injured when a car crashed info a culvert in Hume Highway…

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Woman Injured in Fall From Car

The Biz · Wednesday 13 November 1957 · page 23

A young married woman passenger in a car received a deep laceration to her left leg when be was thrown to the roadway…

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Pensioner Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 20 November 1957 · page 7

Mr. John Sayer of [?] Canley Road, Fairfield, on Friday, November 15, at 7 p.m., was wheeling his cycle up Station…

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Fire Captain Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 20 November 1957 · page 3

Whilst answering a call to a fire in the Georges Hall district last Saturday, Cabramatta's fire brigade was involved in an…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 21 November 1957 · page 7

Bruce Joseph Hodge, 34, of Lot 67, Palmer Street, Sefton, was was injured in a car accident on Lapstone Hill on Thursday last…

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Responsibility For Road Accidents

The Biz · Wednesday 27 November 1957 · page 29

Ever since the First World War, when the motor car became an everyday means of transport, the argument has…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 28 November 1957 · page 10

Last Thursday Mrs. Kathleen McAlister, of 14 Davista Road, Springwood, 74, fell at her home and was taken to Nepean District…

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Drowning at Liverpool

The Biz · Wednesday 4 December 1957 · page 3

On Sunday Nicola Rossi (22), of Green Valley Road, Green Valley, was drowned in the Georges River at Liverpool…

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Accident Potential Light System 'Deplorable'

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 4 December 1957 · page 15

Street lighting in Sydney and Suburbs is "deplorable." So says N.R.M.A. General Secretary, Mr. H. E. Richards…

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Smithfield Girl in Accident

The Biz · Wednesday 4 December 1957 · page 18

Last Thursday afternoon Rhonda Graham, eldest child of Mr. and Mrs. Graham, who lives with her parents at 225…

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L'ennemi des enfants modernes: L'ACCIDENT

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 6 December 1957 · page 4

A négligence dee parente, dee nour-enfin de tous ceux qui les enfants, est-elle en train contrecarrer l'oeuvre des savants…

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