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Sydney · Accidents

Accidents, 1958

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Industrial Accidents

Tribune · Wednesday 1 January 1958 · page 2

INDUSTRIAL accidents in the past 12 months were responsible for a loss of manpower to industry equal to the time worked by 27,188 men in…

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Boy Drowned at ''Hollywood"

The Biz · Wednesday 8 January 1958 · page 2

A six-year-old boy was drowned while swimming among about 150 people in the George's River near the…

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Two Hurt in Accident

The Biz · Wednesday 8 January 1958 · page 14

A man and a youth were injured, the youth seriously, when they were involved in an accident at the comer of High and…

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A Chapter of Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 9 January 1958 · page 7

The holidays started off when Allan Wilkes was brought from St. Marys on December 20. His address was care of Delmont…

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Motor Cyclist Slightly Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 24

Mr. Donald Brown, of 1[?] High Street, Cabramatta, was injured when his motor cycle skidded in loose gravel in Cabramatta Road…

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Atomic Accident Brin[?] Per[?] to Two Fami[?]

The Biz · Wednesday 15 January 1958 · page 16

What [?] commonplace [?] the lives of [?] with the [?]…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 16 January 1958 · page 5

Last Friday a man named M. O'Loughlin was injured at the Quarries Pty. Ltd., Castlereagh Road, where he worked. It was…

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Accident victims home

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 17 January 1958 · page 1

Two Sydney spectators at the recent Victorian Interstate Jewish Sports Carnival who were injured…

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Car and Motor Cycle Collide Cyclist Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 8

A 20-year-old motor cyclist sustained a compound fracture of the leg and a fractured thigh when his motor cycle collided…

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Accident Statistics

The Biz · Wednesday 22 January 1958 · page 16

The value of accident statistics to transit systems was a controversial topic at the 45th, US. National Safety Congress in Chicago…

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Five Injured in Accident

Nepean Times · Thursday 30 January 1958 · page 4

Sapper Cecil Kensey, 21, from Independent Field Sqn., Liverpool, was in a car which collided with another one on Great…

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Three Injured in Accident

The Biz · Wednesday 5 February 1958 · page 16

When three cars were involved in an accident at the intersection of John and Hill Streets, Cabramatta, last, Friday morning, three…

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Baby Drowned in Creek

The Biz · Wednesday 5 February 1958 · page 8

At Fairfield, on Sunday, 20-month-old Cheryl Hill was dro[?]ed in a puddle about 75 yards from the home of her parents,…

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Killed in Accident

The Biz · Wednesday 5 February 1958 · page 21

Mrs. Ailsa Dixon, of Cabramatta, was one of two women killed in a motor car accident at Lismore last Friday…

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Accidents on Mulgoa Road

Nepean Times · Thursday 6 February 1958 · page 7

Last Friday. Hans Georg Mehitens, 27, Warragamba Dam barracks, met with an accident at 2.48 in the afternoon, near…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 February 1958 · page 6

Frank McFarlane, Lidcombe, was bitten by a brown snake on Dr. Turnhbull's property, Mulgoa Road. A torniquet had been…

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Accidents

Nepean Times · Thursday 27 February 1958 · page 1

Last Sunday, Nariel Hirsch, 49, Evan Street, Penrith, a rigger for water board, was in a truck which ran over an embankment…

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Motor Accident

The Biz · Wednesday 5 March 1958 · page 4

When a motor driven by Trevor Jones, of Lord St., Cabramatta, and a motor evele ridden by Barry Keyte, of Hollywood…

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Couple Injured

The Biz · Wednesday 12 March 1958 · page 22

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Teasdale, of Karabar Street, Fairfield Heights, received minor injuries and shock when a car collided…

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Fairfield Man Drowned Mr. Albert Keys, Schoolteacher

The Biz · Wednesday 12 March 1958 · page 23

Mr. Albert Heys, of 21 Francis Street, Fairfield, was drowned in tragic circumstances at Waliacia last Friday…

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