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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Two Hurt in Jeep0 Accident

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 29 September 1954 · page 6

Two Coonabarabmn men were injured, one seriously, when a jeep overturned near. Baradine…

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Baradine Motor Accident Two Injured

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 30 September 1954 · page 13

On Thursday afternoon last Messrs. Bruce Searle, E. Hunt and Keith Antaw, were travelling from…

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Collision Followed Tyre Blow-out

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 October 1954 · page 1

When a tyre blew out yesterday a oar, driven by E. O. Cafe, of "Carlita" Quambone skidded, collided with a safety…

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Three vehicles in accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 4 October 1954 · page 1

Three men escaped unhurt last Saturday when the three vehicles they were driving were involved in accidents at the…

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Two Shot in Nyngan Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 5 October 1954 · page 2

TWo shooting accidents, one fatal, occurred in the area during the weekend, when hundreds of people went…

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Tragic Road Toll Accounts For Half Million Injured And 10,000 Killed in 40 Years of Road Accidents

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 6 October 1954 · page 2

The passing scene of highway history in N.S.W. is not a pleasant one. It is littered with the accumulation wreckage of forty years of accidents. It is strewn with the bodies of more than 10,000…

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Fatality at Toorale

The Western Herald · Friday 8 October 1954 · page 1

On Sunday, 3rd October, a man named Ralph Allan, aged 52 years, was brought to the District…

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Coronial Inquests Doctor’s Accidental Death

Coonabarabran Times · Thursday 14 October 1954 · page 5

The district coroner, Mr. D. W. Murphy, conducting an inquest on Thursday last into the death of Mary Helen…

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Two Young Motor Cyclists In Death Game Are Shockingly Hurt Die in Head-on Collision Brisbane

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 15 October 1954 · page 6

Two young motor cyclists killed in a head-on collision, are believed to have been playing a game called "chicken." American youths play the game by driving…

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Fine Follows Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 20 October 1954 · page 5

A charge of failing to give way to a vehicle on the right, resulting from an accident on May 13 ended with Walter Willie…

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Police Unable To Cope With Growing Accident Rate, Ask For Help Speed Limit Cuts Sought to Fight Road Toll Sydney

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 6

The mounting toll of road deaths was a national problem and needed effective citizen leadership to combat it, the Police Commissioner (Mr. Delaney) told a special conference of transport organisations…

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Former Local Doctor and Wife in Accident

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 October 1954 · page 1

A former Wellington doctor and his wife, Dr. F. O. Stokes and Mrs. Ruby S. Stokes, were seriously injured on Friday week…

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Three hurt in car accident

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 1

Three people were injured yesterday when a car ran off the Stuart Town Road about 20 miles from Wellington and…

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One Died, 39 Were Hurt in Accidents in Past Year

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 October 1954 · page 2

During the year ended June 30, 1954, 91 accidents occurred in the Wellington Shire, in which one person was killed and 39 injured. This was revealed in a…

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Childs Dies After May Carting Accident

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

A [?] year, aid boy died in the Narromine District [?] yesterday after falling [?] lorry…

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Over 60 Accidents In T[?] a Shire Last Year

Narromine News and Trangie Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 1

There were 65 [?] in meaning Though Peak Hill and the [?] the year' [?] last, the [?] of meter [?] Mr. W. A [?] in his[?]…

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Driver, 17 And Car Accident SYDNEY

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 2

Teenagers has too much money and freedom, City Coroner F. McNamarra said in committing a 17-year-old…

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Boy, 3, Killed in Accident

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 26 October 1954 · page 3

A three year-old boy, Trevor James Jones, of "Rosewood" Tomingley was fatally injured on Sunday when he fell from the…

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News Gulargambone Accident to Mrs. Simpson

Gilgandra Weekly · Wednesday 27 October 1954 · page 8

Mrs. Peter Simpson met with an accident whilst rounding up her cows and is now an inmate of the…

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Ejection Seat Saved Pilot From Drowning Valetta

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Thursday 28 October 1954 · page 2

A NZ pilot Lt. Bruce Macfarlane, was taking off from a British carrier when his engine failed and he…

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