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Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra) · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

116 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 5 of 6

Serious Accident. to Mr. Gordon Collett

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 14 August 1950 · page 2

While working at a circular saw at the State Forest on Saturday, Mr. Gordon Collett had the misfortune to slip and fall on the…

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Motor Cycle Strikes Dog Local Rider Injured

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 6

After striking a dog on the aerodreme road on Saturday afternoon Kevin S[?]ead, of Forbes, was admitted to the…

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Grenfell Man Injured Fell on Moving Circular Saw

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 1

Gordon Collett, of Grenfell was terribly injured on Saturday afternoon when he fell on to a circular saw, when sawing…

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Taxi-driver Injured in Car Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 18 August 1950 · page 1

A Grenfell taxi-driver was critically injured last Monday afternoon when his car left the road and crashed into a tree…

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Youth Injured in Bike- Truck Collision

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 21 August 1950 · page 3

Keith Colvin, of West Wyalong, is a patient at the Wyalong and District Hospital as the result of…

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Three Killed; Five Injured in Accidents SYDNEY

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 4 September 1950 · page 1

Three People were killed and five injured in road accidents in Central Western N.S.W. during the week…

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Will Assist Injured Players

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 2

Mallee Plains Rugby League team will look after its injured players. Stating this at Wyalong this…

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Statements After Accidents

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 18 September 1950 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. advises motorists to be careful about giving statements, particularly signed ones, after they have been involved in…

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Accident to Migrant

Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder · Thursday 21 September 1950 · page 2

Mr. Dusan Dumick, a migrant employed by Mr. Jack Woods at Pine Ridge, a district out the other side of Vermont Hill…

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Local Residents in Road Accident

The Forbes Advocate · Tuesday 26 September 1950 · page 1

Messrs C. Rath and J. Kirwan, when returning from Orange last Friday by truck, were concerned in an accident from which they…

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Child Drowned on Birthday Sydney

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 1

Paul Fitzgerald, aged 6, was drowend in a creek yesterday, which was his birthday…

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Injured Players' Fund Will Benefit

The West Wyalong Advocate · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 1

The Wallee Plains Rugby League Football Club Injured Players' Fund will benefit financially from a dance…

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Child Hit by Swinging Horse. Accident at Greenethorpe Show

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Thursday 28 September 1950 · page 6

Tiny Janet Cook, of Greenethorpe. was hit by one of the horses on a small horse-o-plane at the Greenethopre Show last…

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Youth Drowned in Prospect Crk. SYDNEY

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 1

Police are still dragging Prospect Creek, near Sydney, for the body of 13 years old Robert Godfrey, of…

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Dog Bites Horse at Cootamundra; Driver Injured

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 2 October 1950 · page 1

When a dog bit a butcher's horse at Cootamundra the horse belted with the cart which capsized…

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LACHLANSIDER It was very lucky no person was injured in Friday's crash of bicycle riders

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 6 October 1950 · page 5

In the first place, the finishing line was placed in the worst possible place, some, 30 yards or so from a street Intersection…

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Two Men Injured When Truck Skids, Overturns

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 13 October 1950 · page 1

TWO Municipal Council gasworks employees received severe concussion what the motor truck in which they were travelling overturned at the corner of Union and Dowling Streets on Tuesday afternoon…

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Baby Drowned in Well at Young

The West Wyalong Advocate · Monday 16 October 1950 · page 5

A tragedy which shocked the town on September 8 formed the subject of an inquest at the Young Court House, when…

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Six Men Drowned at Burrinjuck

The Forbes Advocate · Friday 20 October 1950 · page 1

Six men were drowned at Burrinjnck Dam yesterday when swept off the spillway Wall, on which they were…

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Nine Men Drowned at Burrinjuck

The Grenfell Record and Lachlan District Advertiser · Monday 23 October 1950 · page 2

In one of the most shocking drowning fatalities in the history of New South Wales, nine men were swept to their doom at…

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