Riding Accident District Resident Receives Broken Ribs
Mr. Clarrie Ross, of "Bon View." Gollan, sustained a fracture of the left leg on Thursday afternoon last. He was riding…
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Accidents, 1945
149 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 1 of 8
Serious Accident to Returned Soldier Leg Amputated
On 15th December, at about 11 a.m., a young man named Moris Daly (25), a returned soldier, was scrub cutting at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Arthurville Thrown From Horse Serious Accident
Mrs. G. Patrick has been called to her brother's (Mr. Fred Meers) bedside. He had the misfortune to be thrown from a horse. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Country Road Accidents
Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of the State showed a substantial increase for the three months ended September…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sleeping Child Injured by Falling Train Water Bottle at Dubbo Station
Serious injury was suffered by a child at the Dubbo railway station on Thursday night, when a water bottle, which was being placed in the rack by a porter fell and struck the child while she was asleep on the carriage seat…
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SYDNEY. Friday.—During the past 14 months 190 persons were injured, several of them fatally, whilst on railway premises or in trains, from causes…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In Collision with Raaf Lorry Taxi Goes Through Tree Guard
In the split second while he was switching off the petrol, a taxi driver found that his cab, when crossing an intersection, was suddenly struck amidships by an R.A.A.F. lorry. The taxi plunged through a tree-guard. Occupants of both vehicles…
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Mr. K. M. Getz, Health Inspector and Impounding Officer to the Gilgandra Shire Council, met with a nasty, accidcnt early'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Council Reports Fewer Holiday Accidents
The Road Safety Council of New South Wales has issued the following report, concerning road accidents during the recent holidays:…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Three Injured In Street Collision
About 10 o'clock tills morning a collision occurred at the corner of Fitzroy and Cobra Streets, between a utility truck driven by Mrs. Alice Vera…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Large Bolt on Line Thirteen People Injured SYDNEY Thursday—A train smash
in which 13 persons were injured, near Merrylands Station yesterday afternoon is believed to have been caused by a big steel bolt put deliberately on one…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shooting Fatality
Brisbane:—Following the fatal Shooting of Chief Petty Officer John Daniel McCollom, of the United States. Navy, at a House at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Reported "Drowned" Found Safe by Ambulance
Misunderstanding a message, a family (camped on the river bank an South Dubbo) believed that one of their children had been drowned. An urgent…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Small Boy If Injured in Crash From Raths Diving Board
Extensive injuries were suffered By Gordon Nash (11), of 6 Quinn' street, when lie slipped and crash-ed on a concrete diving pedestal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sergeant Ross Dunbar Reported POW in Tokio After Being Presumed Drowned in Pacific
Previously reported missing after a Japanese ship, carying Allied prisoners of war, was torpedoed in the Pacific area, Sgt. Ross Dunbar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dubbo Boy Drowned
David Bradford (6), son of Dr. H. P. Bradford, of Dubbo, was accidentally drowned at Collaroy rock swimming pool on Friday afternoon. The boy, with other members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Children Injured
An incised wound on the bottom of the left foot was suffered by Rhonda Pryor (7), of 238 Brisbane Street, when she cut it on a piece of broken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ten Men Injured Accident on Tooraweenah Road
As the result of an accident on the Tooraweenah Road, about three miles from Gilgandra, on Thursday evening…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Believed Drowned
On Thursday evening last a young man named Bill Reed, aged 18 years, was down at the river swimming and was seen by Brian…
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Found floating face downwards in Manly Pool on Monday afternoon, Pauline Maynard (5), of Dubbo, was saved by tVo use of carbogen gas by…
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