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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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New Australian Dies From Injuries Received in Road Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 6

A New Australian employed on the Burrendong Dam at Mumbil died in Dubbo Base Hospital recently without…

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Coolah Resident Killed: Accident at Mudgee

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 8 March 1951 · page 15

Mr. John Lonard. eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Lonard. Godard Street Coolah was fatally injured in a track accident near…

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Man Drowned at Cronulla. Sydney

The Wellington Times · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

Geoffrey Richard Bridges, aged 21 years, of Forest Road, Miranda, drowned in the surf at Cronulla yesterday after…

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Engine Crew Injured. SYDNEY

The Wellington Times · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 5

Scalding steam severely burned the engine driver and the fireman when a train stalled in a tunnel near…

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Coroner's Verdict On Double Tragedy "Accidental Death as Car Overturned When Out of Control." Driver Exonerated After Giving Evidence of Being Forced Off Road By Oncoming Car

The Wellington Times · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 1

AT the inquest in the Wellington Coroner's Court this morning into the deaths of "Ronald Owens and Geoffrey Thompson the District Coroner, Mr. J. P. Dowd, returned a finding of accidental death caused when the car in which they were travelling overturned whilst out of control on the Parkes road on March 3 last…

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Three Injured in Car Upset at North Dubbo

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 3

Three men had a narrow escape from serious injury when their car overturned in North Dubboo on Sunday…

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Dubbo Cyclists Injured While Training

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 6

Two Dubbo cycle enthusiasts were injured yesterday while training on the sports oval. They were John Robertson, of…

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Narromine Road Collision

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1

In a paragraph in the "Liberal" yesterday, it was stated that Harold A. Stevenson, of 18 Smith Street, Dubbo, while…

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Child Injured in Fall Off Horse

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 3

When she fell from a horse at Merrygoen last week, the four year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Aldridge…

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Coonabarabran Youth Killed Three Others Slightly Injured

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1

Mr. L. G. J. Bayliss, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Bayliss of Binnaway Road, Coonabarabran was killed…

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Man Injured When Tractor Topples Into Creek

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 1

Mr. Peter Thurston, of "Nullen", Tooraweenah, suffered a compound fracture of the left leg, injury to the…

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Inquests Into Accidental Deaths

Gilgandra Weekly · Thursday 22 March 1951 · page 4

The District Coroner, Mr. E. [?] end, held two inquests at Gilgandra on Wednesday morning into recent deaths…

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Mumbil Laborer Injured

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 27 March 1951 · page 1

Herbert Robinson, a laborer from Mumbil was admitted to the Wellington District Hospital on Saturday night suffering…

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Lorry Accident Near Yeoval Causes a Death

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 28 March 1951 · page 1

Raymond Charles Dehono, lorry owner-driver, of Baldry, near Yeoval, died at Wellington Hospital last night…

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Blackouts As a Result of Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 1

For three nights in succession, accidents have caused blackouts in different parts of the Dubbo district…

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Fatalities in Easter Road Accidents

The Wellington Times · Thursday 29 March 1951 · page 1

Two people were killed and three were injured in road accidents in the Wellington District during Easter. Six…

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Collision on Peak Hill Road

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 3 April 1951 · page 1

A Narromine man escaped serious injury on Saturday afternoon last when a [?] occurred between a…

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Car and Truck Collision

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 4 April 1951 · page 3

The driver of a roadster car was injured yesterday afternoon in an accident near the intersection of Darling and Bultge…

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Boy Injured in Fall

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 5 April 1951 · page 17

Master Colin Leslie, of Racecourse Road, Coonabarabran suffered a lacerated wound to the left leg when he fell from…

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Nsw Road Toll 13 Dead and 21 Injured Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 5 April 1951 · page 1

The death of two road-smash victims last night took the N.S.W. road toll to 13 dead and 21 injured in the past five days…

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