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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

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Crowded Bus Crashes—three Injured Bathurst

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

When a bus with 26 persons aboard skidded on yhe muddy Rockley road yesterday it crashed over a bridge injuring the driver ami a number of the…

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Accident Toll Statistics Put Blame On Most Pedestrians

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 9 October 1941 · page 5

Members of the Road Safety Council assembled in annual meeting discussed at length the problem of pedestrians involved in road…

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Airways Official Dies in Accident Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 14 October 1941 · page 1

The general manager of Guinea Airways in New Guinea, Eric Chater, about 40, was strucK by a whirling propellor of a plane and killed en an…

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Plane Fatality. Sydney

The Western Herald · Friday 17 October 1941 · page 5

Auckland, N.Z. — When an air-force plane crashed during a night training flight, Flight Lieut. Harold Wiles, 32, married and leading…

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Car Accident Musicians Have Lucky Escape

The Wellington Times · Thursday 23 October 1941 · page 1

Members of Theobald's orchestra had a lucky escape from serious injury early this morning, when the car in…

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These Things Caused Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 27 October 1941 · page 7

Whether the driver was a city salesman or a country resident and whether the road accident occurred' in town or…

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Fatal Accident at Walgett

Gilgandra Weekly and Castlereagh · Thursday 30 October 1941 · page 1

We are indebted [?] the Walgett "Spectator" for the following details of a tragedy that occurred in that district last Friday,…

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Two Airmen Injured in R.A.A.F. CRASH Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 November 1941 · page 1

Two members of the crew of an R.A.A.F. aircraft engaged on technical reconnaisance work in the "Battle of Cressy" were injured when the plane…

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Lessons of Recent Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 3 November 1941 · page 4

Last week's road accidents in which motor vehicles were involved could have been avoided had the following…

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Jamieson's Apprentice Badly Injured Melbourne

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 6 November 1941 · page 1

Alan crawford, promising apprentice jockey attached to trainer J. T. Jameson, was injured seriously at Caulfield this morning when riding a young…

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Painful Accident

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 6 November 1941 · page 6

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. Ray, of Mendooran, received painful injuries to the face on Wednesday of last week. The…

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These things cause accidents

The Western Herald · Friday 7 November 1941 · page 6

Whether the driver was a city salesman or a country resident and whether the road accident occurred in town or out in the…

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Children To Blame In Many Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 11 November 1941 · page 6

Modern transport methods now enable children in the country to travel long distances to and from school each clay. In some centres there are…

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K.c.'s Wife Drowned Fatality Near Home Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 13 November 1941 · page 1

Mrs. violet Bradley (60), or Greenwich, wife of Mr. W. J. Bradley, K. C., was drowned in the Lane Cove River, near her home, this morning…

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Lessons of Recent Accidents

The Western Herald · Friday 14 November 1941 · page 7

Last week's road accidents in which motor vehicles were involved could have been avoided had the following points been…

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Horses Are in Road Accidents

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 November 1941 · page 11

Six persons have been killed and 25 others injured in road accidents caused by horses during the last three months in…

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Young Girl Injured in Fall From Horse

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 18 November 1941 · page 2

Falling from a horse yesterday afternoon, Doreen Bootle (8), who resides with her parents at their property 13 miles from Dubbo on the Narromine…

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Serious Accident

The North-Western Watchman · Thursday 20 November 1941 · page 1

A serious accident befel Mr. Goulburn Burrows at Milliwindi, [?] on Thursday last. It appears that Mr. Burrows was…

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Painful Accident Fall From Cycle

The Wellington Times · Monday 24 November 1941 · page 6

Miss May Birchall, of Monte-fiores, received a severe fall from her bicycle yesterday morning, and as a result she…

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Child Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 25 November 1941 · page 6

Struck on the shoulder by a cup, thrown by a small boy, at the mission station at the week-end, Margaret Smith (8) suffered a severe laceration…

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