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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

221 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 3 of 12

Motor Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: A third victim of the head-on collision at Kellyville last night, Leslie Hickey, 23, of the R.A.A.F., has died…

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Two Per Way Men Injured At Work

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 1

Two Per Way workers were injured in accidents at work yesterday. They were:…

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Motor Accidents Bonds for Drunken Drivers

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 5

“There is something seriously wrong when, in a year of record road accidents, Magistrates” courts released on a…

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Man Injured in Street Fight

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 4

A young man received lacerations to the chin and stab wounds in the back of his neck in a brawl in Auburn Street early on Saturday night. Police subsequently arrested…

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Head-on Collision Two New Australians Killed

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 5 March 1951 · page 2

Two hew Australians, employed BV Burrinjuck, were killed stantly when the motor cycle they were riding collided with a panel…

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Funerals of Accident Victims Late Clifford Reeve

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 2

The funeral, of the late Mr. Clifford Reeve who was found dead in a paddock on Mr. R. L. Corbett’s property, “The Horseshoe,”…

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Mr. H. G. Elrington Killed in Car Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 2

MR. H. G. ELRINGTON, father of Messrs. Eric and Arthur Elrington, solicitors, of Yass, died in Kempsey Hospital on Thursday…

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Car Overturns At Collector: Two Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 1

Two R.A.A.F. men were injured when a car overturned on the Federal Highway near Collector early…

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Man Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY: A badly injured milkman was t[?]ried under broken bottles beneath an upturned cart this morning in…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

Mr. F. R. Webb, employed by the Public Works Department at Burrinjuck, was injured in a collision with the motor cycle he was…

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Drowned Whilst Learning to Swim

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 5

The district coroner, Mr. E. A. Hickey, returned a finding of accidental drowning when he conducted an inquiry into the death…

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Road Accident Hints

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 6

In an effort to limit the seriousness of injuries which result from accidents during holiday periods, ambulance and Road…

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Woman Drowned?

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 16 March 1951 · page 6

SYDNEY: Police suspect that a woman has been drowned at Marcubra and. are trying .to establish her identity by .clothes…

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From Everywhere Workman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 20 March 1951 · page 2

A Per Way labourer had his thumb injured by a steel girder this morning. He was Mr. F. Burgess of Tarlo Gap…

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Drowned In 20 Feet Of Water

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 26 March 1951 · page 2

A 16-year-old Goulburn youth was drowned when he jumped from a boat into 20 feet of…

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Two Killed in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 2

Messrs. John Joseph Huggins, 25, and Thomas Nell Hugg'ns, 21, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Keith Huggins, formerly of Goulburn,…

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Injured at Baths

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 6

An R.A.A.F. trainee suffered spinal injuries when diving in the baths last Saturday afternoon. He is V. Wills, 19,…

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Injured Youth Satisfactory

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 5

The 17-year-old Manly youth, who was accidentally shot in the arm near Marulan yesterday, was reported this morning to be…

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Two Hurt in Collision on Highway

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 1

A man was seriously injured when a car collided with the rear a semitrailer trailer near Boxer's Creck…

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Death of Accident Victim

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 3

A man injured in an accident, at Boxer's Creek, on Tuesday night, died in the District Hospital shortly…

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