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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1947

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Level Crossing Accident Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 1

Terrified shouts of a lorry driver probably saved the lives of two men when their vehicle was struck, overturned and wrecked…

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From Everywhere Constable Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 6 March 1947 · page 4

Constable Injured. Sen.-Constable S. Lowther, of Young, had two fingers of his left hand badly crushed when a…

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Threatened by Fire: Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 5

NANKING Monday: One hundred and fifty panic-stricken passengers and crew were drowned when…

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Bowning Man Killed at Shell Depot Level Crossing Shocking Fatality on Saturday Collision Between Truck and Train

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 March 1947 · page 2

A shocking fatality occurred at 10-50 on Saturday morning when Walter Augustine Donohue, 52, wood carter, of “Erin…

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Unusual Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 12 March 1947 · page 2

Francis Randle, of Junee, met with a strange accident. Randle was using a piece of glass to plane down a hammer handle, when the…

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Ambulance in Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 March 1947 · page 5

The Superintendent of the Berrima District Ambulance reported to the monthly meeting of the committee on…

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Rider Injured At Picnic Races Making Good Progress

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 17 March 1947 · page 2

Riding Jean Blanc in the Ledgeworth Handicap at the Picnic races on Friday afternoon, Mr. Cam Thackeray of “Makari” Young, had…

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Crossing Accident Motorist and Cyclist in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 3

A 13-year-old cyclist, Betty Holloway, of Hercules Street, East Goulburn, received minor injuries in a…

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Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 5

The scene of many nasty accidents, Murderer's Bridge again provided another case for the Berrima District…

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Hit Run Driver Two Women Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 March 1947 · page 1

Miss Doreen Caroline Venables is in Cooma District Hospital suffering from bruises and shock sustained when a sulky she was…

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Two Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 19 March 1947 · page 5

Jack (Dusty) Bruce and Ernie Bourke, South Gundagai residents, were injured when about 20 miles from Gundagai on the…

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Injured Rider Taken Home

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 20 March 1947 · page 2

[?]r. Cam Thackeray who was in[?]ed in a fail at the Picnic races last Friday, was taken from the District Hospital to his home at…

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Struck by Case Man Seriously Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 24 March 1947 · page 5

Neville Casey, of 76 Citizen Street, received serious internal injuries when he was struck by a large packing…

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Sun Glare Causes Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 25 March 1947 · page 1

A joy-ride on a newly-acquired motor cycle ended up badly for Junee P.M.G. telegraphist George Loveridge…

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Injured in Road Smash

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 26 March 1947 · page 1

Badly injured in a road smash about fifteen miles from Parkes, Laurie Mackenzie, Orange but cher, and his daughter, Lorna…

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ACCIDENTAL Level Crossing Fatality Recommendations to Railway Department

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 27 March 1947 · page 1

The District Coroner, Mr. E. A. Hickey, found that Walter Augustine Donohue, former woodcarter of Bowning, died on…

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Cyclist Hurt Lagoon St. Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 28 March 1947 · page 4

A Goulburn cyclist received concussion and shock when he was struck by a car in Lagoon Street yesterday afternoon…

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Drowned in Flood Riverina Swept by Rain

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 31 March 1947 · page 3

A man was drowned, crops was lashed to the ground, miles of foncing were ashed away and several rail washaways occurred…

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Baby Drowned at Cooma

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 1

A sad fatality occurred at Nimmitabel when a girl, Norma Fay Smith, 2 years 4 months old, elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs…

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Injured Boy Condition Improving

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 April 1947 · page 3

The condition of a nine-year old Braidwood bay who was admitted to the Goulburn District Hospital in an unconscious…

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