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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

302 stories in Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young)'s papers · page 12 of 16

Accident in Auburn St

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 1

A motor car was damaged when making a U-turn in Auburn Street, on Saturday, at 7 p.m…

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Local Doctor Recovering After Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 1

A Goulburn doctor, who was injured recently when another vehicle colided with his car, was brought back to…

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Worker's Lip Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 3

Henry John Keiland, of Cliford sustained cuts to the upper lip when he was struck by the handle of a wool press while…

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Car On Wrong Side Of Road Caused Fatality, Driver Says

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 1

In Goulburn Coroner's Court yesterday, James McKinley Hicks said his wife suffered the injuries from which she subsequently died when an oncoming car on the wrong side of the road caused him to crash into a tree…

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Local Driver In Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 September 1953 · page 1

When Edward Gordon Millsom, of Ottiwell Street, Goulburn, was driving his car along the Cowra-Dalton Road at 7.30 p.m…

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Two Killed in District Road Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 14 September 1953 · page 1

Two people have been killed in road accidents in the Gunning-Breadalbane districts in the past 24 hours. One of the victims, a…

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Champion Ice Skater Among Four Injured Highway Smash

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 1

Four people, one a champion ice skater, were injured when two cars collided head-on between Cullerin and Breadalbane, on the Hume Highway, at 11.20. a.m. yesterday…

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Cars Damaged In Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 September 1953 · page 5

A taxi and another vehicle were badly damaged when they collided at the corner of Goldsmith and Bourke…

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Injured in Fall

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 21 September 1953 · page 1

Mrs. D. Hawkey, of Grafton Street, sustained an injury to her back and left shoulder when she fell down some stairs at her…

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Motor Cyclist Injured In Goulburn

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 22 September 1953 · page 1

A young married man, Rex Harding, 26, of Lake Bathurst, sustained a fractured left collarbone and factured…

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Inquest Into Tallong Child's Drowning

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 25 September 1953 · page 1

"This was a most tragic happening," Goulburn coroner, Mr. G. A. Goodwin, said yesterday, when he returned a finding that Cheryl June Robinson, a 15-months-old child, met her death by accidentally drowning when…

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Korea Man Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 28 September 1953 · page 2

A returned soldier of the Korean war was drowned when he went for a swim at Bondi Beach about 2.15 a.m…

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Child Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 2 October 1953 · page 3

Christine Maclean, 3, of the Mulwaree Hotel, hurt her face when she fell off a chair yesterday. She received treatment at…

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Three Killed, 23 Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 October 1953 · page 5

Three people were killed and 23 injured in N.S.W. road accidents at the weekend. Two were killed near…

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Six Injured in Smash

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 5 October 1953 · page 3

Six Sydney people were admitted to Goulburn Base Hospital yesterday following a road acident near…

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Two Injured In Collision

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 October 1953 · page 3

Two people were injured when a collision occurred between a motor car and a utility truck on the…

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Badly Injured in Crash on Wee Jasper Road

Yass Tribune-Courier · Tuesday 6 October 1953 · page 3

A UTILITY DRIVEN BY MR. WILLIAM ALAN SMITH, 21, OF COOMA STREET, CRASHED INTO A TELEPHONE POLE ON THE WEE JASPER ROAD, THREE MILES FROM YASS, LAST NIGHT AT 10.30, AFTER LEAVING THE ROAD AND…

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Boy's Death After Car Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 October 1953 · page 3

Robert Colburn, 13-year-old boy, of Walker Avenue, Miranda, who was admitted to the Base Hospital as the…

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Shooting Accident

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 6 October 1953 · page 3

Terence James McGrecby, 33, of Boundary Avenue, Wahroonga, was shot in the thigh yesterday when a gun…

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Boy's Leg Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 7 October 1953 · page 3

John Flynn, 5, of Salford Street, cut his right leg on. a piece of glass yesterday. Goulburn Ambulance took him to the…

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