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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

211 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 6 of 11

Three Youths Injured Motor Cycle and Car Collision

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 July 1950 · page 7

When a collision occurred between a motor cycle and car near Gunning last night, three youths were riding the cycle were…

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10 Killed in Freak Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 4

NEW YORK, Thurs.: Ten persons were killed and over 50 injured, many seriously, in a freak collision at Monica,…

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Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 5

Mr. R. Davoren, while working at Wantabadgery, was involved in a most unusual accident. He was skinning a rabbit for…

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New Minister for Transport on Toll of the Road Will Make Effort To Reduce Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 5

The toll of the road had been so terrific of recent months that it had caused grave public concern, said the new Minister for Transport (Mr. Sheahan). "I will give it my closest…

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Taralga Farmer Meets With Unusual Accident

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 12 July 1950 · page 6

A Taralga farmer was injured in an unusual accident while collecting wood at his property on Saturday…

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Accidental Measles

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 13 July 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK: About four months ago 16-month-old Joan Anderson of Washington, came down with nepbrosis, a…

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From Everywhere Injured Back

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 14 July 1950 · page 4

Injured Back. Frank Shurety, Railways cleaner, of Wilmot Street, sustained injuries to the back…

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From Everywhere Quarryman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 4

Charlie Hodge, quarryman of "Winga," Marulan, suffered a fractured right ankle when fell in a gutter on Saturday…

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Two Injured When Car Overturns On Hume Highway

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 4

Two R.A.A.F. members were injured when a ear overturned on the Hume Highway, 23 miles north of…

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Motor Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 17 July 1950 · page 4

F. Eccleston, of Batlow, suffered a possible fracture of the right leg and severe shock when he was involved in a…

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Not Guilty on Both Counts Outcome Of Road Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 18 July 1950 · page 4

The question as to whether a man who had drunk thirty beers would smell stronger of liquor than a man who had only consumed three arose in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…

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Eye Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 21 July 1950 · page 5

Arthur Bishop, of Sloane St., sustained a laceration to the right eye whilst Welding a piece of steel at the Technical…

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Fitter Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 27 July 1950 · page 4

L. Keighran, railway flitter, of 13 George Street, dislocated his left knee while at work yesterday. He was taken to the…

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Queanbeyan Man Is Missing: Drowning

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 31 July 1950 · page 1

Goulburn police to-day gave details of a Queanbeyan man, believed to be suffering from amnesia, who has been missing since last Monday, and the drowning of a Rye Park man at the week-end…

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Baby Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 August 1950 · page 5

SYDNEY: A 20-months-old baby was drowned when it fell out of a pram into a flooded creek at Mackay…

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Grandson's Vain Attempt to Save Grandfather Sad Tragedy in Flooded Pudman Creek Near Rye Park Horse Swept Off Its Feet and Drowned

The Burrowa News · Friday 4 August 1950 · page 1

A ten-years-old grandson made a gallant attempt to save his grandfather from drowning when the sulky in which they were travelling over the Pudman Creek near Rye Park on Saturday afternoon last capsized and…

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Former Resident Of Taralga Injured In Car Smash

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 8

On Saturday last, at 11.30 p.m., Mr. Charles Bradbury, of Curraweela, received a beam wireless message from London,…

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Freak Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 4

Plunging straight down a fifty feet embankment a lorry disappeared in fifteen feet of water at night recently, but…

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Injured Wife's Plight in Car Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 8

MELBOURNE: Unaware that her husband had been killed, a middle-aged woman struggled "downhill…

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Accidental Drowned Whilst Endeavouring to Cross Flooded Creek Coroner's Finding Into Pudman Ck. Fatality

The Burrowa News · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 2

At the Boorowa Court House last Saturday morning the Young District Coroner (Mr. C. M. Western), conducted a…

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