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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1937

106 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 6

Cars Collide Canberra Residents Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 2

In a head-on collision between two cars on the main highway near Goulburn late on Tuesday afternoon four persons were injured by flying…

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Killed in Car Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 June 1937 · page 3

A car in which three men were travelling from Melbourne to Sydney skidded on the road at North Goulburn on Tuesday, and one of the passengers…

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Boxer and His Wife Killed in Motor Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 2

MELBOURNE.—Leo Bendias, Aged 33, a former amateur champion Australian heavyweight boxer, and his wife, Rita Maude Bandias, aged 32,…

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Bungendore Motor Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon last a motor accident, which resulted-in the destruction of Mr. T. Flynn’s car, occurred at the corner of Rutledge and…

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Accident to Mr. G. Hatch

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 2

Mr. George Hatch, one of the best-known and most popular footballers in the Bungendore district, met with a serious accident when taking…

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Courtesy on the Road Helps to Prevent Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 June 1937 · page 4

Any motor driver who “rushes” pedestrians, uses the horn unnecessarily, passes without safe clearance, speeds into intersections, cuts corners, drives…

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Bungendore News Serious Accident at Railway Station

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 3

When attempting to board the Cooma Mail at Bungendore on Monday night, after the train had let she platform, Aubrey Sluman, an…

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Tragic Accident at Crookwell

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 June 1937 · page 2

Laurie, the three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Reg Poll, of Crookwell, met her death under tragic circumstances on Wednesday morning…

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Brisbane Tragedy Two Pilots Killed Collision in the Air

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 4

When two Royal Queensland Aero Club machines collided above Acacia’s Ridge, about a mile from Archerfield aerodrome on Saturday afternoon, two…

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Sad Tragedy Accident in Bush Boy Shot in Abdomen

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 June 1937 · page 1

On Sunday afternoon, while out with some other boys in a paddock in the municipality, half a mile off the Cooma Road, Guy Lennox Keatch, aged 12…

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Fatal Shooting Accident at Queanbeyan

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 June 1937 · page 2

Struck by a bullet from a pea-rifle fired by another boy, Guy Keatch, 12, was fatally injured on Sunday afternoon. The son of Mrs. E. Keatch, of…

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Truck Fatality at Adaminaby

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1937 · page 7

ADAMINABY.—Arthur Larkins, aged 45, and Edward Britt, aged 52, were killed yesterday when the truck in which they were driving…

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George Day Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 1

George Day, Queanbeyan’s dashing, three-quarter, was unfortunate enough to fracture a rib in the game at Bombala on Sunday last. Day will…

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Road Accidents Man Killed Instantly

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 July 1937 · page 2

While returning to his home last Friday night with a loaded lorry, Percy William Turner, aged 29 years, of Bedgerebong, near Forbes, was killed…

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Accident on Road

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 July 1937 · page 3

On Tuesday, near Paddy’s River, failure of the steering gear of a touring car resulted in its capsize over an embankment. Mrs. Done, the driver,…

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Fatal Accident Man Pinned Under Car

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 August 1937 · page 1

While motoring from Yass to Goulburn, Selby Cedric Ryan, 23, a grazier, of Wargeila Station, Yass, was pinned face down after his car had overturned…

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Solicitor’s Stoicism Thighs Fractured in Car Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 2

With both thighs fractured. Mr. Kenneth J. Dixon, aged 27 years, a Pitt-street solicitor, was imprisoned. for an hour in the wreckage of a car…

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Fatal Road Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 4

Many persons were seriously injured, and there were five deaths from motor accidents, during the week-end. At Fivedock, Rosalind Speirs, aged 5,…

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Road Accidents Hopes for Reduction

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1937 · page 1

Major W. T. B. McCormack, chairman of the Country Roads Boards of Victoria, who returned to Australia by the Monterey on Monday said that,…

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Missing Woman Found Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

The mystery of the disappearance of Miss Mary St. George, aged 52, from her home at Petersham, on Sunday, August 1, was cleared up by the police…

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