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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1932

67 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 4 of 4

“Could Have Avoided Accident Youth Sent For Trial on Manslaughter Charge SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 December 1932 · page 1

An inquest was held at Parramatta to-day on William Tracey, who was knocked down in Church Street and fatally injured by a car driven by…

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Bertram Crashes But Is Un Injured ’Plane Badly Damaged in Ditch SOURABAYA

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 December 1932 · page 1

In his attempt on the record between Australia and England, on his way home to Germany, Hans Bertram, with Scotty Allen as co-pilot, met with a…

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Girl Killed and Two Injured When Car Swerved to Avoid a Dog Sydney

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 December 1932 · page 1

Miss Mary Kennedy (24), typiste, was killed, and Norman Watson (26) and Jock Kennedy (13) were injured when a car skidded near Mayfield West,…

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Cartridge Explodes Police Superintendent's Son in Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 December 1932 · page 4

George Jeffrey, son of the Superintendent of Police at Albury, was victim of a shooting accident recently, when, the cartridge in a gun…

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Drowning Fatality Toll of the Motor

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 December 1932 · page 7

While William Savage was endeavoring to rescue his son, who had got beyond his depth in Whakatane River (N.Z.), the former's clothes caught Mrs. Kate Gordon (43), of Finley, near Deniliquin, was killed when a motor car driven by her husband collided with the parapet of an…

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Sailors in Accident Bad Road Blamed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 December 1932 · page 1

“When a resident of Bungendore complained to the Yarrowlumla Shire Council to-day about the state of the main road at Bungendore, he said that…

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Terrible Car Fatality Wife Killed in Smash

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 December 1932 · page 3

Setting out for Sydney to enjoy the school holidays, tragedy [?] Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Gordon, of Finley, as they were motoring…

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