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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1933

91 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 5

Fatal Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 April 1933 · page 7

NYNGAN.—While Charles Day (71) was driving a motor car the steering gear failed and the vehicle got out of control and crashed into a…

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Local and General Awful Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 April 1933 · page 2

Word was received in Braidwood yesterday by Mrs. A. Chuchin of the awfully sudden death of Mr. John Connell, only son of the late Mr. M…

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Thown From Horse Jocl: Maxwell Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1933 · page 1

While holidaying at Brindabella during Easter Mr. “Jock” Maxwell sustained injuries from an accident while riding…

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May Lose Eye! Lad Injured at Hockey

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 April 1933 · page 1

Injured in the hockey match on Sunday afternoon Darcy Thompson was rushed from Queanbeyan. to Sydney on Monday morning for attention,…

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A Chapter of Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 21 April 1933 · page 2

Misfortunes never come singly, we are told, and doubtless Mr. Paul Nore chong will agree whole-heartedly with the old saying. While on his run to…

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Eye injured by Golf Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 May 1933 · page 3

A remarkable coincidence was associated with an accident which occurred on the New South Wales golf links, at La Perouse on Sunday, afternoon, when…

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Local and General Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1933 · page 3

A nasty accident befell Mr. W. Luther, Clyde road, one night last week. it seems he was leading a horse to the stable. He stumbled…

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Serious Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 2 May 1933 · page 2

An accident which might easily have been attended with more serious consequences occurred on the Major's Creek to Ballalaba road last…

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Battered With Beer Mug Man’s Head Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1933 · page 1

During a drunken braw[?] on Saturday night a man’s head was badly cut and bruised with a beer mug, and a number of stiches had to be inserted in the…

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Railway Accident FivewKilled on Southampton Express LONDON

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 May 1933 · page 1

Two men and two women and a boy were killed in a train smash on the southern railway this afternoon when the Southampton express and a…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Fatal Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 30 May 1933 · page 7

John H. Wilkins, aged 45, a tramway employee, was killed and Mabel Little (35) critically injured when the former's motor cycle and…

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Hall News Head-on Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 June 1933 · page 2

Messrs. Selby and Cleon Kilby had a narrow escape of being seriously injured or Sunday evening; both were motor-cycles and had a head-on…

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Motor Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 June 1933 · page 4

On Wednesday morning while driving a car along on Captain’s Flat Road about quarter of a mile beyond Bungendore Hill. Mr. Jack Blundell (an…

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Burning Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1933 · page 7

PERTH.—After having a bath at their home at Naremburn on Saturday night, Elsie Martin (21) and Blanche Moore (19), without…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Frightful Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 June 1933 · page 2

When a sulky collided with a tram at Willoughby last night a passenger, Mrs. Gertrude Stantford, was, impaled by the shaft, which passed…

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Local and General Fatality at Nelligen

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 June 1933 · page 2

Word was received at Braidwood on Sunday evening of a terrible fatality which occurred at Nelligen that afternoon. It appears that two young…

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Illegal Use of Car Fined £60 After Fatal Accident SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 June 1933 · page 1

At the Liverpool Police Court to-day William George Wells, aged 21, appeared on charges arising from the alleged illegal use of a motor car on the night…

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Aged Woman Killed Husband Also Injured in. Car Smash- SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1933 · page 1

Mrs. Marion Gribbenlyons, 63, was killed, when ?. motor car crashed into sho wall of the Australian Pickle Factory at Stanmore this morning…

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Accident at Araluen

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1933 · page 2

On Sunday morning two cars collided on the road from Major's Creek to Araluen, both being more or lees damaged. It appears that the Rev…

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Car Accident op Cooma Road Occupants Narrow Escape

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1933 · page 1

As the result of a car accident, on the Cooma road near Burra on Saturday afternoon, John Gregory, of Williamsdale, is in the Queanbeyan…

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