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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Three Slightly Injured Truck Skids And Overturns

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 23 January 1948 · page 5

Skidding on loose gravel on Norwood Road, Kenmore, yesterday, a three-ton truck overturned, slightly…

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Holiday Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 January 1948 · page 3

A man suffered a fractured right knee yesterday, when the motor cycle he was riding and a motor car collided in Auburn Street…

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From Everywhere Drowned Two Yards From Bank

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Edward John Irons, 59, of Kalgoorlie, who was holidaying in Perth, was drowned two yards from the bank of the san…

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Record Number Of Accidents At Sports Meeting

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 27 January 1948 · page 2

Yass Ambulance was kept busy at the sports at the Mullion on Saturday. The Superintendent, Mr. D. J. Ross,…

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Laggan Road Collision Small Girl Injured

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 4

A nine-year-old girl, Norma, Evans, received cuts and abrasions tot the face front flying glass when a utility…

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Boxer Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 8

LONDON, Wednesday: An. X-ray has revealed that the New Zealand boxer, Bos Murphy, tore a ligament in his left foot when…

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Railwayman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 7

A railway employee who was injured when he fell from the roof of the Crookwell Railway Station has been admitted to the…

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Painter Injured In 12 foot Fall

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 1

A Railway Department tradesman who had been engaged re-painting the local railway station was injured…

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Man Injured In Fall From Ladder

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 January 1948 · page 5

William Stanley Cox, retired oxy-welder, suffered probable concussion and abrastons to his right elbow when he fell from…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 2

A motor cyclist suffered abrasions to his elbow yesterday when his machine and a taxi collided in Auburn Street…

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B’Juck Drowning Boat Capsized Searchers Thanked

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 2 February 1948 · page 2

At the inquest concerning the drowning in Burrinjuck dam on October 23 of William James McAlister, Sergt…

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Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 1

C. (Bob) Garland, 29, market-gardener, of Sloane St. South, was dangerously cut in the neck when a belt on a machine broke…

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Man Seriously Injured in Car Smash

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 4 February 1948 · page 1

A 22-year-old Victorian was seriously injured last night when his car left the Hume Highway seven miles north of Goulburn and crashed down ten feet embankment…

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Verdict of Accidental Death Kialla Road Smash Inquiry

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 4 February 1948 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner after inquiring into the circumstances surrounding the death of Laurie John Frey when a truck overturned…

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Elderly Woman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 5

Elderly Mrs. M. Horne, of Burra Creek, Taralga, was severely cut about the shins when she fell down some steps…

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Injured Woman In Ice Cave Stranded On 10,000 Feet Slopes

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 3

CHRISTCHURCH, Tuesday (A.A.P.-Reuter): A woman climber, Miss Ruth Adams, is lying in an ice…

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Failed to Stop After Accident Woman Driver Fined £5

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 1

Because an elderly woman was in a hurry to get to church, she did riot stop her car after it had knocked a boy from his bicycle. This was stated in Goulburn…

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Goulburn Driver Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 4

While handling logs yesterday: Goulburn horse and cart driver, D. Trevanion, suffered a punctured wound to his left forearm…

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Showman in Collision Vehicles Hit At Marulan

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 4

A travelling showman narrowly escaped death yesterday when his car and a military lorry collided at…

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80-Year Old Man Injured in Fall From Horse

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 5

Thrown from a horse at Captain's Flat yesterday, an 80-year-old man suffered. extensive cuts and bruises…

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