"Passengers May Have Been Interested in Living." Motorist Told
"Your passengers may have been interested in living," Mr. Fleeman, S.M., told a motorist in the Wollongong Court of Petty Sessions yesterday…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1954
822 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 10 of 42
Know Your Road Signs
Featured today are signs which are erected at the approach to a ferry (diagram 5) and signs displayed on…
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A 25 years old married woman was injured when she was struck by a railway engine at North Wollongong level…
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Soldiers' Road at Mt. Kembla has been closed owing to a landside. The Southern Zone Engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →It Was Long, Dark Road with Early-day Headlamps
Early motorists, if they drove at all after sundown, mounted kerosene lamps on their vehicles to let other drivers know they were coming. The lamps did little to show where the cars were going…
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Accident figures for Australia last year showed that only one Australian was killed in an accident, the cause of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MOTORING News and Views The Wollongong Sporting Car Club
[?] note to those readers who [?] to know exactly how to be [?] proud owners of an attrac[?] badge bearing the words…
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Improvements by recent grading and sealing to roads in the Werri Beach area of Gerringong have brought the…
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BUENOS AIRES, Tues.—Twenty-one persons are reported to have been killed in a train crash near…
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Instructions have been issued for the lengthening and flattening of the grade of the ramp leading to the overbridge…
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This week are shown the "School" and "Hospital Drive Quietly" signs…
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At last meeting of Illawarra branch of the Road Safety Council it was reported that some road…
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Antonia De Graff, 24, of Cowley St., Bellambi, suffered severe lacerations to the left thigh when his…
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The front portion of a semi trailer truck was extensively damaged when it was involved in a collision…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motoring Notes and News Keep Your Foot Steady
Any person sitting in the driver's seat and absent-mindedly stamping the accelerator pedal up and…
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A finding of accidental death was returned yesterday after an inquest into the death of two-year-old Marjorie Joy Costello, on January 12.' The girl was struck by…
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In the last ten years there were 106,736 serious road accident casualties in New South Wales, including 6,031 persons killed. This period includes war and petrol rationing years when accidents were at their lowest, because of lighter traffic, and the statistics of the last few decades show that…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Radio News and Programmes Sat Play—"Waterloo Bridge"
"Waterloo Bridge," a play by Robert Sherwood, adapted for radio by Leslie Rees, will be broadcast from the A.B.C. in Saturday Playbill on Saturday at 8 p.m. from 2FC. Lance-Coroporal Ray Cronin…
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Again in 1953 excessive speed was the greatest single cause of road accident deaths, causing 131 out of the total of 704…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MOTORING News and Views Wollongong Sporting Car Club
TAMBEROO has never seen as many cars as it did on Sunday, March 28, when about 70 people in about 26 cars either…
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