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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

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Car Engine Exploded Mayor Injured Foul Play Is Suspected

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 31 March 1937 · page 5

KIRKSVILLE (Missouri), Tuesday: Mayo[?] G. Jacobs was critic ally Injured to-day when the engine of his car exploded as he…

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CROOKWELL Car Collision On Laggan Road No One Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

CROOKWELL: On the Laggan road between Crookwell and Laggan on Monday night two cars came into collision…

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Tram and Car Collide Man Killed and Three Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday: A man was killed and three other people were injured when a motor car and at steam tram collided in Prince's Highway…

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Girl's Fortitude After Severe Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 1

In the presence of several hundred shocked spectators Miss Isabel Wakely (20), was seriously hurt when an…

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Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 7

SYDNEY, Thursday: When his bicycle and a motor lorry collided near William Henry Street, Glebe, to-day, Richard Roberts fell between the…

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Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 4

Mrs W. Atkinson was admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital suffering from an injury to her hip, received through falling over at her…

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A Peculiar Accident

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 3

When making a fishing excursion at Borambola Station, A. E. Morton, aged 18, employed by Messrs F. and G. Hughes, met with a peculiar…

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Fatal Accident Man Dies From Spinal Injuries Cars Collide Near Goulburn

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 April 1937 · page 2

Mr. Samuel Edward James, 50, of Hillview Road, Goulburn, son of Mrs. James, of Meehan Street, Yass, died about 5 o’clock…

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Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 April 1937 · page 1

Mrs. W. Atkinson was admitted to Prince Alfred Hospital suffering from an injury to her hip, received through falling over at her residence…

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Bread Given Token Of Man’s Escape From Drowning

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 4

Free bread was distributed recently to nearly a hundred widows and fatherless children at St. Ives, Hunts (Eng.), as decreed in the will (dated…

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Coogee Cliff Again Youth Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 1

SYDNEY, Monday: A young man had a remarkable escape from death yesterday when he fell over a rock cliff at Coogee, only a few yards…

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Cars Damaged Double Crash Near Crookwell Driver Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 5 April 1937 · page 4

CROOKWELL, Monday: Two cars were damaged, and the driver of one, Alan Cummins, was admitted to hospital, following an…

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Fine for Negligent Driving Court Case Arises From Accident At Intersection Car and Cyclist

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 3

Stephen James Tazewell, a radio salesman, was fined £5, with costs, at the Goulburn Police Court yesterday morning…

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Accidental Hume Highway Crash Main Roads Board Criticised

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 6 April 1937 · page 7

"If any blame is a tachable to anybody, it is the Main Roads Board, which allows such a dangerous turn to exist," was a…

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Cars Collide Crash On Low Level Crossing Mr. P. F. Cummins Injured

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 7 April 1937 · page 1

Two cars, one a fairly heavy model, the other a light car, came to grief on the low level concrete crossing about two and a half…

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Tram and Lorry Meet Three Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday: A tram-driver and two women passengers in the tram were injured yesterday afternoon when a tram and a large lorry,…

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Prone to Accidents

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 8 April 1937 · page 1

Victorian figures seem to indicate that young motor drivers are more prone to accidents than older ones, for out of 264 fatalities in group 'A,'…

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Youth Awarded £106 Claim Against Railway Department Fingers of Left Hand Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 1

The Commissioner for Railways was the respondent in a case before the Worker's Compensation Court at Goulburn on Friday, when George Frederick Bradford, a railway employee, by his next friend, Hilton A. Bradford,…

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Eight Injured in Car Crash Serious Collision On Razorback

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 13 April 1937 · page 4

SYDNEY, Thursday: Well-known society people, a honeymoon couple, and four young men who had been given a…

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Mysteriously Shot Accident at Berry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Wednesday 14 April 1937 · page 8

Walking through the bush Mr. William Monteith, the well-known carrier felt a stinging pain in his shoulder and thought he had been stung by a…

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