Bathurst Youth's Death Due to Steering Fault Lagoon Road Fatality Verdict of Accidental Death
National Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1954 · page 1
Details of how a young Bathurst man met his death when. his car. of which he was the driver. veered off The Lagoon Road. about six miles…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Crossing Smash at 'Wang Five Injured
National Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1954 · page 2
WALLERAWANG. Fri— Quick thinking by the driver of a car. at a railway level crossing at Wallerawang today. saved five people from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Parkes Man Injured Semi-trailer Crash
National Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1954 · page 1
CULCAIRN. Frid.—A man from Parkes was injured on the Albury Road. a few miles from Culeann today. when a semi-trailer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two Drowned
National Advocate · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1
WOLLONGONG, Sunday: There was a boating accident at Lake Illawa[?]a, this afternoon, in which two men were drowned. They were Allan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Freemantle Man Injured
National Advocate · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2
When he was struck by railing rock at his home at Freemantle on Saturday, Mr. Jack Trudgett, received severe lacerations to the head. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dual Collision Blocks Mount Victoria Pass
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2
One of the thickest fogs ever experienced on Mt. Victoria Pass contributed to two collisions and subsequent lengthy traffic holdups on Friday night. Traffic was again disrupted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lithgow Man Drowned--Family Powerless To Help
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2
A Lithgow man who didn't want to go fishing, but finally agreed to accompany his friends on a family picnic, was drowned in Lake Illawarra yesterday afternoon. He was Mr. Bede Glynn, aged 45, formerly of Wrights-road whose mother died on Christmas Day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Injured in State Mine Fall
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 1
Almost buried alive in a fall of coal, a State Mine employee on Friday escaped with a crushed left hand and severe shock after a piece of mine timber had prevented his face from being badly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Many Minor Accidents At Week-end
Lithgow Mercury · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2
The first case of the month for Lithgow ambulance occurred early this morning when hearers were called to treat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Bandsman Injured
National Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1
COWRA, Monday: A Junior bandsman, Neville Grice, 16, of Cowra, was seriously injured last night on his way home from a band concert. The bicycle…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldiers Injured in Road Crash
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 2
SYDNEY, This Afternoon.--Three soldiers were critically Three soldiers were critically off the Hume Highway into a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Five Members Injured During Sensational Shooting in U.s. House of Representatives
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1
WASHINGTON, Tuesday.--Shouting "Free Puerto Rico," three men and a woman opened fire from the public galleries yesterday upon a full session of the United States House of Representatives, wounding five Congressmen, one of them seriously. Police and spectators quickly seized the assailants, but before they had finished spraying the packed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Youth, Girl Killed In Kelso Smash Third Victim Badly Injured Motorist on Slaying Charges
National Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1
Two young Kelso residents died in Bathurst District Hospital last night, shortly after they had been struck by a utility truck on the Main Western Highway, near Bathurst, at eight o'clock last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Negligent Driving Charge Sequel to Bathurst Accident
National Advocate · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 2
After hearing evidence from two witnesses for the prosecution, Mr. Dash, SM, adjourned a case at Bathurst Police Court yesterday against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Killed In Accident Near Kelso
Lithgow Mercury · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 1
BATHURST, This Aft.--A youth and a girl were killed on the Western Highway near Kelso last night…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drove Under Influence and Failed to Stop After Accident Manufacturer fined £10
Central Western Daily · Tuesday 2 March 1954 · page 2
In Orange court yesterday a 42-year-old manufacturer was fined £5, with £4 witnesses’ expenses m a charge of driving a panel van while under the influence of liquor, and £5 for faint to stop after an accident…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Driver's Lucky Escape After Road Collision
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 2
Blinded by fog and the lights of a truck with which he had collided, a 21-year-old Lithgow truck driver fought unsuccessfully to control his sliding coal truck and was thrown out of the cabin shortly before it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accident Victims' Funeral Today
National Advocate · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 2
Rebecca Cafe (15½), the surviving victim of an accident on the Sydney Road, near Kelso, on Monday night in which a youth and a girl were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Colliery Employees in Accidents
Lithgow Mercury · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 4
Two mine employees were taken to hospital yesterday afternoon after they had been injured in accidents at the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Kandos People Injured When Driver Crashes Car Avoiding Train
Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative · Thursday 4 March 1954 · page 19
A chapter of accidents surrounding a railway level crossing near St. John's Church, some distance from the main business centre of Wallerawang, was enlarged when a Kandos man, the…
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