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Central West (Bathurst, Orange, Mudgee) · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Car Driver's Collapse [?] Girl Critically Injured

National Advocate · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A six year old child was knocked down by a car while crossing from a children's playground to her home in the Sydney…

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41 Killed 60 Injured Plane Crashes in Usa

National Advocate · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 2

NEW YORK, Sunday: Two American Army planes have crashed in the past 24 hours, killing 4[?] men and injuring about 60…

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Painful Accident

National Advocate · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 2

Catching her hand in the drive wheel of a bicycle at 5.35 yesterday afternoon Dawn, 4-years-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A.P. Simmons, of [?]2…

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Three Minor Road Accidents At Week-end

Lithgow Mercury · Monday 21 January 1952 · page 2

Of the three minor road accidents reported to Lithgow police over the weekend two involved cars…

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Railway Clerk Injured

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

Alan Charters (17), of Crowsan St., Milthorpe, a clerk employed at the Railway Works Branch Office, suffered a probable facture to the spins…

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Twelve Killed in Ecuador Road Collision

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 1

QUITO, Ecuador, Tuesday. At least 12 persons were killed and 22 injured in southwest Ecuador, yesterday, when…

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Spine Injured Well Known Bathurst Man's Costly Dive

National Advocate · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

Diving into five feet of water in the Macquarie River near Mt. Pleasant at about 4 p.m. on Sunday last, Mr. Murray Thompson, well known…

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Yesterday's Minor Accidents

Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 2

Three of the accidents victims treated by ambulance officers yesterday were children. The only aduit transported…

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Probe Into Accident

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 1

Orange police are making investigations into a collision between a motor car and a motor truck on the Bathurst Road,…

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Charge of negligence sequel to accident

Central Western Daily · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 1

Sequel to an accident in Summer Street on June 13,1951, in which a woman and her 15-year-old daughter were hit by a utility truck and seriously hurt was heard at Orange Court yesterday when Harold James…

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Motor Cyclist Injured in Highway Crash

Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 1

A motor cyclist was injured late yesterday afternoon when his machine came into collision with a lorry near Barr's…

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Accidental Death Verdict In Creasy Hearing

The Lyndhurst Shire Chronicle · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 1

A coronial inquiry was held at Blayney Court House yesterday into the death of Rex Raymond Creasy, a 15 years old West Blayney boy, who died in Blayney District Hospital at…

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Accident Victim Improving

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 2

The condition of Mr. Murray Thompson who was injured while diving in the Macquarie River on Sunday, was last night reported to be…

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Truck Driver's Death Orange Accident ORANGE

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 1

A young motor driver, who was critically injured on the Mitchell High way near Orange this morning, [?] in hospital at 4.30 this afternoon…

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Accident Cases

National Advocate · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 2

Donald Howard, six year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Howard, Keppel Street, suffered lacerations to the chin when he fell at the Bathurst…

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Blayney Inquest Death of Boy “Accidental” (By a Staff Reporter)

Central Western Daily · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 4

BLAYNEY, Tuesday. — A finding of accidental death was returned by the District Coroner at the inquest today into the death of 15-year-old Rex Creasy who was fatally injured when knocked off his bicycle by a motorist on December 15,1951. Present in court charged…

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Railway Injured

National Advocate · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 2

A railway signalman suffered abrastons and contusions to the head when he fell down a flight of stairs at the railway yesterday. He is Mr. Fred…

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Youth's Badly Injured Eye

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 2

A 17-year-old garage employee was rushed to Sydney early this afternoon for an urgent Operation in an attempt…

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Portland Driver Fined As Sequel to Fatal Accident

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 4

After a manslaughter charge against him had been withdrawn and a drunken driving charge dismissed, a Portland man, previously of Bathurst, pleaded guilty and was convicted on negligent…

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Four S.A.F. Employees In Accidents

Lithgow Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 4

Four employees of the S.A.F. were transported by ambulance for attention yesterday, whilst the other two…

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