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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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New Year Was Accident - Free And Quiet

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 1 January 1952 · page 3

No serious accidents were reported in the Goulburn district over the holiday period, and…

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Goulburn's Holiday Was Orderly, Accident-free

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 2 January 1952 · page 2

Goulburn holiday period was "more orderly all round" than usual, Police Inspector E. W. Freeman said to-day. "It was the best holiday period since I have been here." he…

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Big Blaze After Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 3

A 22-year old petrol driver was prised from the cabin of the vehicle with a…

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Boy Injured: No Light on Bike

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 3

A 9-year-old boy sustained head injuries last night when a car knocked him from his bicycle near the…

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Court Sequel To Minor Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 8 January 1952 · page 1

A minor accident which occurred when a lorry driver made a U turn in Union Street had its sequel in Goulburn Court of…

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Canberra Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 3

Robert Lusis, 28, a New Australian forestry worker, was killed by a falling tree in Uriarra hardwood forest, near…

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Goulburn Road Toll Nine Killed in 331 Accidents in 1951

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 4

Nine persons were killed in road accidents in Goulburn Police Sub-district during 1951. Inspector E. W. Freeman said this to-day…

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Slight Increase In Local Accident Rate

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 1

Contrary to the general trend! throughout New South Vales, there was only a slight increase in the local accident…

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New Australian in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

A 42-year-old New Australian was injured in Auburn Street yesterday afternoon. He is Zdravko Jovanovic,…

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Man Injured At Joppa Abattoirs

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

A Joppa Abattoirs employee had a narrow escape from serious injury to-day. He is Henry William Shearer…

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Man Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 3

Edward Percival Cassidy, 45, of Edith Street, Leichhardt married, with five children, was drowned when he was washed…

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From Everywhere Girl Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 2

Margaret Schloeffel, 13, of Darling Street, Dubbo, fractured her skull when she fell about 30 feet from the diving tower at…

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Motor Cyclist In Fatal Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

A 21-year-old motor cyclist died in Yass District yesterday from injuries received in a collision near Bowning on Saturday. He was Geoffrey Leonard…

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Young Sydney Cyclist Dies Following Shocking Accident on Hume Highway

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 2

FOLLOWING a collision between a motor cycle and Utility about 1½ miles beyond Bowning on the Hume Highway on Saturday afternoon, Geoffrey Leonard Garment, aged 21, of Hurstville , died in the…

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Accidental Death

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 14 January 1952 · page 1

At an inquiry at the Court House on December 21, the district coroner, Mr. E. A. Hickey, found that Harold Maurice…

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Bridegroom-to-be Injured In Car Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 17 January 1952 · page 2

Mr. F. M. Orr, a Queenslander, on his way to be married in Tasmania, was injured in the back of the head and face when the car…

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Mother of Nine Children Killed in Shocking Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 6

A shocking accident occurred at North Yass about 7.20 on Sunday night when a family was involved in a collision, and the mother, Mrs. Ina Muriel Waters, was killed, and other members of the family injured…

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Jaralga and District news Two Injured When Truck Crashes Into Tree Two-mile Trek for Aid

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 23 January 1952 · page 4

Two well-known Taralga residents were injured when a truck in which they were travelling crashed into a tree about 12 miles from Taralga on Sunday evening last…

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Killed in Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 24 January 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY: Alfred Charles Constable, 43, of Milner Crescent, Wollstonecraft, was fatally injured when he was impaled on a…

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Two Injured in Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 January 1952 · page 1

Two Sydney people were injured in a collision at the corner of Addison and Cowper Streets yesterday…

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