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Goulburn & the Tablelands (Yass, Young) · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

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Injured on Way to Maher Cup Match

Boorowa News · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 3

A Young resident who left for Boorowa in a utility truck on Satuday with the intenton of seeing the Maher Cup match,…

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Bad Accident At Polo Club's Opening Day

Boorowa News · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 1

The Boorowa River Polo Club held its opening day of the new season on Sunday on "Srathfield," property of the Club President, Mr. John…

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Air Flight For Injured Woman

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY: Mrs. Kathleen Sloan, 38. of Worobil, whose leg was severed by a goods train at Worobil on Friday, is being…

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Wet Roads Cause Local Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 1

Wet weather during the week-end was responsible for a number of road accidents in Goulburn. Although several vehicles were badly damaged there were no fatalities…

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Azier's Body Recovered From Murrumbidgee River [?]Ath Definitely Due to Drowning

Crookwell Gazette · Wednesday 6 May 1953 · page 1

Fifty-two hours after he was reported have fallen from a boat into the Murrum[?]gee River, near Burrinjuck Dam, the body Crookwell district grazier, James Edward…

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Boy Drowned

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 1

A six-year-old boy was drowned in flooded Pambula Lake yesterday morning, despite the frantic efforts of his mother…

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Collision on Highway

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 2

A collision occurred between a semi-trailer and a utility truck on the Hume Highway near Breadalbane…

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Ankle Injured In Football Match

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 1

Brother Dalley, of St. Patrick's College, Goulburn, fractured his left ankle while playing football…

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Railwayman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 2

Sydney Plowright, 28, a porter, of Auburn Street, sprained a ligament in his right leg when he fell off his bicycle at the…

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Trueman Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 8

LONDON, Tuesday: Fast bowlyer Fred Trueman, England's "secret weapon" for the coming Tests against Australia,…

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Ikin Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

LONDON, Tuesday: Lancashire and England left-hand batsman Jack. Ikin, suffered a recurrence of his old back…

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Polo Horses Killed: Men Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 1

In an accident which occurred near the Boorowa turn-off on Sunday night, a polo horse was killed and…

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£25 M. Loss Yearly In Accidents

Goulburn Evening Post · Tuesday 12 May 1953 · page 3

SYDNEY, Tuesday: Chairman of the Australian Road Federation Limited, Sir Herbert Olney, said to-day that it had been estimated that traffic accidents cost Australia more than twenty-five million pounds yearly. He claimed that road safety…

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Accident Killed Family Of Ten

Goulburn Evening Post · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 1

BELVIDERE, New Jersey, Tuesday: A 21-years-old lorry driver involved in an accident that killed ten…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 3

A 20-year-old railway worker, John Tetley, of Hercules Street, East Goulburn, received head injuries when a motor cycle he…

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Three Drowned In Well: Father Saves Third Child

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 3

NEW YORK, Thursday: A mother and two children were drowned yesterday in a well at Douglasville, Georgia…

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Wyangala Farmer Killed When Tractor Rolls Leslie John Roberts, aged 47, of Wyangala Dam, was killed instantly on Monday morning when a tractor rolled on him. The accident happened on his

Boorowa News · Friday 15 May 1953 · page 1

An employee of Roberts, William Joseph Wass, aged 15 1/2, of "Mountain View," Wyangala Dam, was driving…

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Boys Injured In Cycle Mishaps

Goulburn Evening Post · Monday 18 May 1953 · page 1

A 13-year-old boy suffered facial injuries when a bicycle he was riding collided with another bicycle at the corner of…

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Man Killed, Three Injured: Cycle, Car Collide

Goulburn Evening Post · Thursday 21 May 1953 · page 1

A motor cyclist was killed and three other people injured, one seriously, when a motor cycle was involved in a collision with a car on Braidwood Road, about five miles from Goulburn, at 7.20 last night…

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Driver Given Bond: Accident Sequel

Goulburn Evening Post · Friday 22 May 1953 · page 2

A man who gave an undertaking to Mr. C. N. Finlay, S.M., that he would abstain from taking intoxicating liquor before driving, was placed on a three- years' bond in Goulburn Court of Petty Sessions on Tuesday…

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