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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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

Road Safety Skids Cause Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 May 1939 · page 4

Road accident reports from country centres for last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding and in the coming months many more…

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Road Safety Causes of Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 3

The number of accidents attributable to carelessness and inattention during the 12 months ended 30th June, 1933, was 1,819 in which 115 persons were…

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Road Safety Accidents at Corners

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 2

"A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the…

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Accidents at Corners

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 2

“A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due…

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Queen Mary Escap in Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 26 May 1939 · page 2

Ker Majjesty, Queen Mary, met with an accident on Wednesday when the car in which she was being driven collided with a motor lorry. The car…

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Falling Rails Two Men Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 30 May 1939 · page 1

Two men, employed on the Bungendore Captain’s Flat railway construction job were injured yesterday in remarkably similar…

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Fatal Drink Young Girl’s Death Queanbeyan Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 1

A young girl, still in her teens, died at the Queanbeyan District Hospital on Wednesday morning under tragic…

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Winter Dangers Road Accident CAUSES(Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 3

Serious road accidents, many of them fatal, have been reported from almost all parts of the State in the last few weeks and the principal cause has been…

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Road Safety Winter Road Accident Causes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 June 1939 · page 5

Serious road accidents, many or them fatal, have been reported from almost all parts of the State in the last few weeks, and the principal…

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Planes Collide Nine Persons Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 June 1939 · page 3

Nine persons were injured when two ’planes piloted by women collided and burst into flames while taxi-ing at Essenden Aerodrome on Sunday…

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Bolting Horse Collision With Car

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 1

Last night, at about half past seven, a horse, fully harnessed, bolted from McQuoid Street, across the bridge up Monaro Street, which fortunately was…

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‘Oh Daddy, Daddy!’ Dying Woman’s Cry Brindabella Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 1

The shocking fatality that occurred at a lonely Brindabella homestead, forty miles from Canberra, on June 7, when Mrs. Eleaner…

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Telegraphic News Sydney, 2 p.m. Man's Terrible Injuries in Collision with Truck

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 2

A motor cyclist, Elwyn Arnold (20), had his left foot torn off and his : leg so badly crushed- that it had to be amputated in a collision with a…

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Parachutist Drowned

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 7

A parachute jumper, Les. Hayward, was drowned In Manukau Harbour, New Zealand, close to the Mangere aerodrome, after a…

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Leg Amputated Young Man Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 1

Mr. James Colman, twenty-two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Colman, of Queanbeyan., met with a serious accident at Bega last Thursday, night,…

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Traffic Accidents Human Element at Fault

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1939 · page 2

The toll of the road in Australia provides striking evidence of the necessity for taking all possible means to reduce road accidents. Much has…

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Road Safety the Unexpected Cause of Road Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 2

What causes a road accident? This question was put to world traffic authorities recently, and the final answer was, meeting the unexpected…

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The Unexpected Cause of Rood Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council on New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 4

What causes a road accident ? This question was put to world traffic authorities recently and the final answer was,…

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Death Follows Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 4

Aubrey Charles Gray, aged 29, of Naremburn, died in the Royal North Shore Hospital on Saturday following a collision between his car and another…

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Toll of the Road Three Killed Others Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1939 · page 4

Over the week-end three persons were killed in road accidents in New South Wales. SCOUT LEADER’S DEATH…

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