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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1938

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Five Men Drowned at Port Kembla Storm Strikes Them in Open Boat

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 3

SYDNEY, Monday: Five persons, including a father and son, were drowned in the ocean off Port Kembla on Saturday night. An open boat, in which they were attempting to cross from the mainland to Rabbit Island, a distance of a mile and a half, was…

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Children Hurt in Accidents

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 2

Knocked down by a motor car on Wednesday afternoon, Kenneth O'Connor, 5, was subsequently admitted to the District Hospital…

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Car Accidents Near Goulburn Several Have Close Calls

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 18 April 1938 · page 3

Several people were injured by none seriously, in motor accident in and around Goulburn during the holidays…

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Road Accidents Near Gundagai and Tarcutta Two Travellers Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 3

When the car in which she was travelling on Monday night ran into a fallen tree, near Lower Tarcutta, Mrs. Carmody, of Canberra, suffered…

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Eye Injured by Pencil

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 1

A child of Mr. and Mrs. Chewying, of Braidwood, recently met with an accident that might result in the loss of an eye…

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Gar Skids into Greek Driver Drowned

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 3

When his motor car skidded off the Hume Highway into Wangaratta Creek at Wangaratta, Mr. George biggie, aged 80 years, an undertaker…

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Cars Collide Two Men Gravely Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 4

When a car in which they were riding collided, head-on with another car at New Farm,Brisbane, on Monday, two officers of the Quantas…

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Motor Car Accidents Injured People’s Condition Satisfactory Man Caught in Back Window of Car

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 2

Returning from the coast on Monday night, a car driven by Mr. W. Davis, Gundaroo Road, turned over coming down the incline half a…

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Head-on Golllsion Two Persons Critically Injured

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 4

After a head-on collision with another car on the Pacific Highway, near Catherine Hill Bay, Newcastle, a motorcar crashed 70 feet down the…

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Accident on Sewerage Works Has Fatal Results Death of Mr. W. MOORE

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 3

An accident, which ended fatally, occurred on the sewerage works at Young last Tuesday week about 10 o'clock, when Mr. William Claude…

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Two Men Killed Gippsland Accidents on Prince's Highway

Murrumburrah Signal and County of Harden Advocate · Thursday 21 April 1938 · page 3

Within two hours on Tuesday two men died as the result of separate accidents on the Prince's Highway, about a mile west of Trafalgar (V.)…

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Racehorses in Collision

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 1

When Mr. A. E. Gosper, of Eugowra, was taking his racehorses Sengala and Eugoroi by float from Grenfell to Forbes on Wednesday…

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The Jugiong Burning Fatality The Way To A Man's Heart Man Succumbs to Serious Injuries Verdict of Accidental Death

The Burrowa News · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 1

At Jugiong, Thomas Hayes, aged 50 years, was shockingly burned, when the tent in which he was sleeping caught on fire…

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Damages Claim Sheep Killed In Car Collision Verdict for Plaintiff

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Friday 22 April 1938 · page 1

Observing that the driver of a car that crashed into a mob of sheep on the Bundanoon-Exeter Road did not exercise sufficient care, Mr. Hardwick, P.M., gave a verdict for the amount of £16/2/, representing the value of the sheep killed and malmed, plus…

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The Car Driver—And The Other Fellow Why Accidents Will Occur

Yass Tribune-Courier · Saturday 23 April 1938 · page 3

In the twenty-five years that I have been driving motorcars, I have never met anyone who had an accident through his own fault—it was the car, the road, or the Other Fellow. Mostly, the Other Fellow, writes J. P. McEvoy…

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Three Men Injured List of Week-End Casualties

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 3

Two men were slightly injured in falls from motor vehicles at the week-end, while a cyclist also fell from his machine and was…

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Shocking Tragedy at Wedding Two Bridesmaids Fatally Burned Others Injured

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 3

LONDON Sunday: while a bridal party was being photographed in a studio at Coventry yesterday, the bridesmaid's dress caught fire from an…

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Car Accident Caught in Back Window

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

Returning from the coast, a car driven by Mr. W. Davis, Gundaroo Road, turned over Coming down the incline half a mile from Kenilworth,…

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Accidents in Streets Mirrors For Cycles Suggested

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Monday 25 April 1938 · page 1

The use of an adjustable handlebar mirror on bicycles was suggested in a report to the works committee of the Wagga…

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Two Injured Auburn Street Collision Car and Lorry

Goulburn Evening Penny Post · Tuesday 26 April 1938 · page 5

Two youths were injured and a man had a narrow escape when a motor car in which the first mentioned pair were travelling…

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