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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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3 Men Hurt in Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 26 February 1952 · page 5

Three men were injured when the utility truck in which they were travelling overturned on Sunday…

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Witness Produces Photos of Accident Sequel to Laggan Road Collision

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 1

A witness in a negligent driving case before the Crookwell Court of Petty Sessions last Friday produced photos to the Court to prove the position of two cars that were involved in a…

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Crookwell-Bigg a Men Injured When Utility Overturns

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 27 February 1952 · page 2

Well-known Crookweil citizezn, Mr. Col. McDonald, and Messrs. Percy and Lindale Picker, of Blgga,…

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Local Fatality

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 1

A 25-year-old woman was electrocuted in the kitchen of her home on January 3. The woman used a carving…

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Boy Injured By Explosion

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 2

A Cowra lad had both his hands and his left eye injured when some chemicals, with which he was experimenting, exploded…

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Blamed Sun for Collision Yass Man Fined At Goulburn

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 28 February 1952 · page 4

In Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday, Mr. A. J. Paton, S.M., fined Phillip James Garner, of Shaw St.,…

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Five Injured In Traffic Mishaps

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 5

In nine hours yesterday five persons were injured in traffic accidents in Goulburn. It was Goulburn's heaviest day for traffic accidents for several…

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North Goulburn Fatality Woman Saw Child in Path of Train

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 4

A woman told Goulburn Coroner's Court yesterday that she had seen a child in the path of a train and had endeavoured to signal to the driver to stop…

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Migrants Injured When Transport Turned Over

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 3

Two migrants were injured when the transport in which they were travelling skidded and turned over on the side of an…

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"Accidental"

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 3 March 1952 · page 5

VALETTA, MALTA, Monday: Fire broke out aboard a naval barge in Valetta Harbour yesterday, near the landing ships…

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Claims for Damages After Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 1

Claims of damages for negligence were awarded to two parties in a cross action case in Goulburn District Court yesterday. In the action, John J…

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100 Killed In Railway Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 5 March 1952 · page 5

NEW YORK, Tuesday: Brazil's greatest railway disaster in which two trains collided near Rio De Janerio yesterday killed…

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Accidental Death Coroner’s Finding In North Yass Collision

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 3

The District Coroner, Mr. E. A. Hickey, conducted an inquiry on Tuesday into the death of In[?] Muriel Waters, and found that'…

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Claims for Damages Yass Ambulance in Collision at Goulburn

Yass Tribune-Courier · Thursday 6 March 1952 · page 3

CLAIMS of damages for negligence were awarded to two parties in a cross action [?] in Goulburn District Court on Tuesday…

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Minor Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 1

A miner collision occurred in Auburn Street yesterday afternoon, when a truck was struck by a backing car…

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Former Rugby Resident Seriously Injured Tractor Overturns

Boorowa News · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 4

Mr. Les Crocke, a former well-known resident of Rugby and now of Wattamondara, was seriously injured recently…

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Four Injured in Week-end Traffic Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 4

Three men and a woman were injured in traffic accidents near Goulhurn at the week-end. Three of the vicims were in a car which crashed at the side…

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Child Died of Injuries Family in Collision At Bowning

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

A BOY, Jamel Lugg, aged 5, of St. Mary’s near Sydney, died in the District Hospital on Satday day night from injuries received…

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10 Men Drowned: 49 Missing in 90 M.p.h. Gales

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 5

LONDON: At least ten seamen have been and 49 more are missing from three ships believed to have foundered during a 90 m.p.h. hurricane in the North Sea at the…

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Third Death in Berremangra Accident

Yass Tribune-Courier · Monday 10 March 1952 · page 2

Miss Lily Miles, of Fairfield, who suffered-head injuries, fractured right shoulder and wound to the leg, when the car in which…

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