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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Man's Sight Is Endangered Serious Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 30 January 1950 · page 3

A man who was sprayed over the face and eyes with ammonia while repairing a refrigerator at the butter factory on Friday…

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Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 31 January 1950 · page 1

A car and a lorry were involved in a collision at the corner of Lagoon arid Edwal Streets early Saturday afternoon…

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Truculent Tragedy Was An Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 1 February 1950 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday: The coroner, at the inquest yesterday into the death of ten victims of the Truculent submarine disaster, found that there was no gross negligence "amounting to criminal negligence." Sixty-four died when the…

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Unusual Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 2 February 1950 · page 5

Struck on the foot when a log rolled from a circular saw bench at Hampton, a young operator suffered painful…

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Double Fatality on Windellama Road Coroner's Verdict Of Accidental Death

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 2

An inquest into the death of Angelo John Voutas, who died as a result of a motor accident on Wildellama Road on January I, was conducted by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. P. E. Jackson,…

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Goulburn Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 7 February 1950 · page 8

Four people were injured in minor accidents in Goulburn yesterday. Mr. Stan Smith, drover,…

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Fatal Accident on Laggan Road Car Completely Wrecked: Driver Succumbs To Head Injuries

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 8 February 1950 · page 9

So severe were the injuries received by the driver of a car which overturned on the Laggan Road about three miles from Crook well on Friday afternoon last that he died that…

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Two Workmen Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

A squaring axe and a bathtub caused injuries to two Goulburn workmen on Tuesday. Apprentice carpenter Les…

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Young Child Saved From Drowning by Dog and Mother

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 1

A 15-months-old child, who wandered away from her home at Marulan yesterday and was found floating in a dam in six feet of water, had a miraculous escape from death…

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Truck Overturns on Hume Highway Father And Son Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 9 February 1950 · page 4

When a utility truck overturned near Paddy's River yesterday afternoon, while travelling towards Goulburn, the two occupants, father and son, suffered injuries to the neck and shock…

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Horse Shied Well-known Drover Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

Mr. Jerry Bullman, a well-known drover, was injured when he was thrown from a horse on Saturday afternoon…

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Man’s Trousers Exploded Odd Accidents of 1949

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 13 February 1950 · page 2

A farmer in California was spraying [?]reed with sodium chlorate, which saturated his trousers. When they dried, the friction as…

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Yesterday's Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 5

One baby was bitten by a spider, another fell head first from its bed, a girl was knocked down by a taxi and a woman…

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Accidental Death

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 16 February 1950 · page 2

The District Coroner, Mr. E. A. Hickey, concluded the adjourned inquiry yesterday afternoon into the death of Samuel Checuti, who…

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Inquiry Into Motor Car Fatality Next Week

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 1

Mr. C. W. Western, Young's District Coroner, will conduct an [?] into the death of Mr. Thomas Micheal Cullen, who was fatally injure in a…

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Galong Man Injured Struck by Fitting of Passing Transport

The Burrowa News · Friday 17 February 1950 · page 1

Whilst travelling in a utility to Galong on Sunday afternoon, Hilton Couch, of Galong, was struck by the fittings of a passing transport…

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Lifesaver Drowned Line Again Fowled By Seaweed

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: Another surf lifesaver saver was drowned yesterday when seaweed fouled his line. He is the second to die in this…

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Level Crossing Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 20 February 1950 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Six persons were injured, one critically, when an electric train struck their car at the Diamond Creek…

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40 Stitches in Arm Woman Injured in Car Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 2

As the result of a car turning over on the Hume Highway yesterday afternoon, a South Australian woman was admitted to the…

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Seriously Injured In Capsize

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 23 February 1950 · page 1

A man was flung from. his car when it overturned about, a mile from Marulan on the Sydney Road…

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