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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

29 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Menangle Park Car Accident

The Picton Post · Wednesday 10 January 1940 · page 1

Three occupants had narrow escapes from death when a car from Campbelltown left the main road, while negotiating a turn near Menangle…

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Car Accident

The Picton Post · Wednesday 31 January 1940 · page 2

A collision between two motor cars occurred on the Hume Highway at Myrtle Creek about 10.30 last night. As a result Mrs. Myrtle Thefs, of…

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Boy Drowned. at Burragorang

Camden News · Thursday 1 February 1940 · page 1

A sad drowning fatality occurred on Sunday afternoon last, January 28th, in the Nattai River, Burrago-rang, when Phillip Brian Reilly, aged…

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Picton Car Crash I Sydney Motorists Injured

The Picton Post · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 1

A party of four Sydney men had narrow escapes from serious injury on Thursday afternoon when the car in which they were travelling…

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Barrallier Accident at Buckjumping Show

The Picton Post · Wednesday 6 March 1940 · page 2

A young man, Laurie Carlon, was admitted to Camden District Hospital suffering from two broken wrists, and an additional fracture of one arm…

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Drowning Fatality

The Picton Post · Wednesday 27 March 1940 · page 2

A very sad fatality occurred at Douglas Park on Easter Monday, when a young men named Leonard Francis Jeffery (19) lost his life while…

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Child Accidents on Roads. By the Road Safety Council of New South Wales

Camden News · Thursday 4 April 1940 · page 7

Requests have been made by several country branches of the Road Safety Council that a State-wide appeal be made to all parents to see that their…

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Child Accidents on Roads

The Campbelltown News · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3

Requests have been made by several country branches of the Road Safety Council that a State-wide appeal [?]e made to all parents to see that their…

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Motor Car Accident Caused by Stray Horses

The Picton Post · Wednesday 17 April 1940 · page 2

While motoring home a few nights ago a party of brothers belonging to the Monastery at Douglas Park, had a narrow escape from serious injury,…

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Serious Motor Accident Six Persons Injured

Camden News · Thursday 25 April 1940 · page 1

At about 6 p.m. on Sunday, on the Hume Highway at Narellan, a motor car, owned and driven by Joseph Grant, 24 years of age, of…

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Barrallier Pea Rifle Accident

The Picton Post · Wednesday 8 May 1940 · page 2

A young man a visitor to the district, received a pea rifle bullet in Ihs leg while rabbit shooting: on Mr. R. F. Carlon's property on Anzac Dav…

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Too Costly Accidents and Sick Pay in the Railway Service

The Picton Post · Wednesday 12 June 1940 · page 4

As showing the enormous proportions that accidents within the railway service have assumed, Mr, J. T. Hartigan, Commissioner for Railways, in…

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Inquest. the Narellan Car Accident

Camden News · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 5

Last week the district Coroner, Mr. H. S. Kelloway, J.P., conducted an inquest on the death of Malachi Joseph McCarthy who died on the…

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The Narellan Car Accident

The Campbelltown News · Friday 14 June 1940 · page 2

Last week the Camden Coroner, Mr. H. S. Kelloway, J.P., conducted an inquest on the death of Malachi Joseph McCarthy who died on the…

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Collision with a Horse

The Picton Post · Wednesday 10 July 1940 · page 3

Our Barrallier correspondent writes: Mr. Carlisle Hartley, of Bowman's Hill." Barrallier, and…

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Railway Accident Engine Derailed at Picton

The Picton Post · Wednesday 31 July 1940 · page 2

While shunting tracks in the Picton railway yards yesterday afternoon, an engine left the lines between two sets of tracks and caused traffic to be…

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Accidents Still Wrecking Homes

The Picton Post · Wednesday 31 July 1940 · page 2

In three days past week seven chil­dren were rendered fatherless because of road accidents. Here we have pain­ful corroboration of the fact that road…

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Car Accident. Car Accident Near Yerrin-bool

The Picton Post · Wednesday 31 July 1940 · page 2

Four occupants of a small motor car were seriously injured on Friday night, when their car overturned at a sharp bend on the Hume Highway, near…

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Council’s Sympathy. Tragic Air Accident

The Campbelltown News · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 1

Directly the Aldermen had signed the “presence book” at the Council meeting on Tuesday night, and adopted the Minutes of the previous…

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Review of Road Accidents 5,532 For. the First Six Months of the Year

The Picton Post · Wednesday 28 August 1940 · page 2

The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I can announce with some degree of…

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