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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Head on Collision with Tram Two People Killed Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 August 1941 · page 1

Benjamin Thomas and John Jennings were killed and three others injured, two critically, when a small touring car collided head on…

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Five Killed In Accident At Level Crossing

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 August 1941 · page 4

In one of the worst accidents ever known in the west all three members of a Camnock family and two Orange children were killed on Saturday night. The accident occurred at a level crossing when a train bound…

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Accident at Local School Sylvia Price Unfortunate Suffers Broken Leg

The Wellington Times · Thursday 28 August 1941 · page 15

Whilst playing with her friends at the Yeoval school during the lunch hour on Tuesday of last week…

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Child Drowned in Creek Melbourne

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 September 1941 · page 1

Marie Hand, aged 8, was drowned in Gardener's Creek. She was playing with her brother, Jack, aged 12, on the…

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Car Overturned Seven Soldiers Injured None Seriously Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 1 September 1941 · page 1

Seven soldiers were injured last night when a car in which they were travelling back to Wallgrove camp skidded and overturned on…

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Country Road Accident Rate Still Too High

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 2 September 1941 · page 4

In the road accident statistics for the year ended June 30, 1941, pedestrians were the only group of road users to shew increases in…

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Painful Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 2

Whilst at work bating hay in the Coonamble district on Saturday last, Mr. Claude Stevenson, of Gi[?]gandra, met with a…

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Inflation of Road Accidents

The Wellington Times · Thursday 4 September 1941 · page 8

Analysis has been made of a cross-section of the 10,500 road accidents reported in New South Wales during the…

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Much Injured Young Man Hurt in Fall

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 6 September 1941 · page 1

Max Morris (20), well-known Dubbo cyclist, collapsed after a fall he had yesterday afternoon, and was admitted to hospital…

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Two Men Injured When Car Capsizes

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 9 September 1941 · page 4

Two young men were injured and an A.I.F. soldier escaped with minor abrasions and shock, when a car overturned on the Coonamble road, near…

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Fell From Ferry Boat Soldier Believed to Be Drowned

The Wellington Times · Monday 15 September 1941 · page 1

The police have failed to locate the body of a soldier who is believed to have fallen into the…

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Unusual Coincidence Mr. Arthur Oehm Meets With Second Accident

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 1

Mr. Arthur Oehm met with a nasty accident whilst driving sheep along a road near Biddon last Week, when his…

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Tram Kills One, Injures Two in City Accident Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 1

One man was killed and two others injured when a tram ran into a gang of tramway permanent way employees in George Street,…

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Euchareena Straying Stock Menace Serious Accident Avoided Changeable Weather Experienced

The Wellington Times · Thursday 18 September 1941 · page 2

We have had some, very changeable weather lately, one day it is cold and then a change to hot weather…

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Inflatation of Road Accidents

The Western Herald · Friday 19 September 1941 · page 2

Analysis has been made of a cross-section of the 10,500 road accidents reported in New South Wales during the year ended June…

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Three Accidents During Week End Wellington Ambulance Has Busy Time

The Wellington Times · Monday 22 September 1941 · page 7

The Wellington District Ambulance, always ready to assist the sick or injured, had a rather busy time…

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Seven Hurt in Series of Week-end Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 23 September 1941 · page 1

When a log of wood he was lifting slipped on a saw hench Bruce Ferguson, of Bultge Stret, had the index finger of his right hand…

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Five Injured In Explosion Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 25 September 1941 · page 1

Five men were badly burned to-day when the top blew off a rotary boiler at the mill of the Australian Paper Manufacturers Ltd.,…

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Wellington District News Stuart Town Three Sulky Accidents Girl Suffers Broken Thigh

The Wellington Times · Thursday 25 September 1941 · page 2

The fine warm weather of last week dried the ground very considerably, and things generally were not looking too good for the…

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Hand Crushed in Rail Points—man Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 2 October 1941 · page 1

While working on Hie water main extensions at the Fitzroy Street level crossing on Tuesday the Dubbo waterworks engineer (Mr. J. Munduy) had…

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