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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Drug Addict Fooled Doctors Prenteded Spine Was Broken in Accident

The Burrowa News · Friday 5 August 1949 · page 6

A man who caused a sensation at Gundagai on the night of Monday, July 4, alleging his spine had been fratured…

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Milk Cart Capsizes Boy Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 8 August 1949 · page 4

When a milk cart owned by Mr. F. Mitchell, of Bradfordville, turned over in the Kenmore grounds yesterday, a…

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Victim of Jeep Accident Dies Coroner Returns Verdict Of Accidental Death

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 10 August 1949 · page 1

Victim of the accident which occurred on Monday evening of last week, when a jeep overturned on the Wheeo-Grabben Gullen Road, William James Frost, 25 years of age…

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Both Legs Broke Biala Man Seriously Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 11 August 1949 · page 2

Last Tuesday week about [?] p.m. Mr. Cec. Barton, of [?] stone,” Biala, was travelling car to French’s Forrest to…

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Collarbone Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 5

Bob Hughes aged 20 years, of 20 Henny Street, Parramatta was taken to the District Hospital yesterday with a probable…

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Veteran of First World War Found Dead Loaded Rifle Beside Body Fatality at Boorowa

The Burrowa News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 1

Residents of Boorowa were shocked last evening when it was learned that Ernest James Mitchell Dick was…

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Car and Truck Collide Accident at Conroy’s Gap

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 15 August 1949 · page 2

A collision occurred between a stationary lorry and a car on Conroy’s Gap on Saturday night. The lorry was driven by…

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Constable Killed in Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 18 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Constable William Watts, 30, of Kogarah, was killed when a car in which he was travelling, collided with a…

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N. Goulburn Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 8

A lorry driven by John Feltham of Marulan, collided with the rear of a transport lorry parked on the Hume Highway,…

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Law and Car Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 19 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: Because of the rising rate of accidents in N.S.W., the Attorney-General, Mr. Martin, has recommended to…

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Fireman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 22 August 1949 · page 4

Reserve Fireman L. Maher, son of Sub-Station Officer Maher, fell from the roof of a Bradley Street home while…

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Accidentally Shot

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 23 August 1949 · page 1

An ex-resident of Moss Vale was involved in a fatal shooting accident while, on duty as nightwatchman at…

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Wrist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 24 August 1949 · page 4

Mrs. J. Stockbridge, of 75 Addison Street, was treated by an ambulance officer yesterday for an injured wrist, caused in a…

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Summonses Follow Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 25 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: The Police Traffic Branch has issued summonses against a woman car driver and a young motor…

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Injured Two Policemen

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 4

Two members of the Cowra police force have been injured, one suffering a broken leg, and the other, an injured hand when…

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Man Injured When Truck Crashes Into Fence

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 1

When five employees of Boorowa Telephone Maintenance gang were proceeding to their work on the Young Road at 9 o'clock this…

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Wirrimah Road Fatality "Fatal Injuries Accidentaily Received" Is Coroner's Finding Motorists Graphic Story of All-night Vigil with Young Sons' Near Wife's Body

The Burrowa News · Friday 26 August 1949 · page 8

"I must have closed my eyes for a second. I next felt the car going over a bank. The car turned over on its side. I think I might have been knocked out. My wife was lying in the car. She said, 'I think I am dying.' I said 'Are you…

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Seven Drowned in Kempsey Flood 20,000 Homeless Damage Estimated At Over £1,000,000

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 29 August 1949 · page 5

SYDNEY: The death roll in the disastrous flood has now reached seven and two more who are missing are believed to have been drowned…

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Motor-cyclist Killed When Bike Crashes Into Deep Washaway Near Bendick Murrell Fatal Accident to Former Wellknown Boorowa Resident Late Mr. Gordon Henry Couch

The Burrowa News · Friday 2 September 1949 · page 1

Pinned beneath a motor-cycle, the lifeless body of Mr. Gordon Henry Couch, former well-known Boorowa resident was found on Sunday afternoon last in a washaway on a road leading from Bendick Murrell to the Scenic Road…

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Rector In Motor Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 September 1949 · page 8

Rev. W. J. Conran, Rector of All Saints Church of England, Berridale, is a patient in Cooma District Hospital with a broken…

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