Fire Follows Collision Petrol Pumps and Car Damaged
Three petrol pumps and a motor car were burnt, a man was injured, and a garage was scorched in a fire which followed a collision in Parramatta…
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Accidents, 1940
125 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 7
Avoid Motor Accidents Keep Alert
More than one-half of motor accidents are caused by collisions, the result of foolish and unnecessary hurry, lack of, mental alertness, failure to see…
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Jack Titus, 14, of Wagga, was dreadfully burnt from head to foot when a drum of boiling tar burst as he was loosening the bung. This received…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Boys Drowned
At the Deewhy Baths on Sunday morning, Allen Carlson Taylor, aged 16, collapsed and was drowned. When missed by a companion, a search was…
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During the week-end there were many road accidents. On Saturday night, at Darlinghurst, Margaret Mary Flynn, aged two years…
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Barry Pennock, 23, a member of the Stockton Surf Club, who had enlisted with the Second A.I.F., was killed late on Sunday night when a motor car in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Two Youths and Man Drowned
Two youths and a man were drowned at bathing resorts near Sydney during the week-end. Their bodies were recovered after they had been under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Four Men Drowned When Yacht Was Wrecked
When the large yacht Ngahuia was wrecked at Matakana Island, near Tauranga, N.Z., in a gale early Sunday morning, only one of the five men…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Explosion in Powder Factory Five Killed; Many Injured LONDON
Five persons have been killed and a number injured, the majority slightly, by terrific explosions at a Royal gunpowder factory on the outskirts of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Plane Nosedived Into Swamp Pilot Trapped and Drowned
When a Gipsy Moth training plane nosedived into Mangrove Swamp at pelican Point, near Kurnell, yesterday morning the pilot, Instructor A. F…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cars Collide: No One Injured
After two cars collided on the Tarago Road late on Sunday night one of the vehicles skidded along the road surface for at least 30 or 40 yards. One…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fined Two Pounds Failed to Tell Police of Accident
Failure to notify the police of an accident within 24 hours of its occurrence on Sunday. November 19. cost Mervyn Neville Eldridge £2, with 8/…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boy Drowned in Cotter Bathing Pool
Wallace Ford (also known as “Bunty” Dunn), aged 16, residing with his uncle, Mr. Bert Dunn, of “Fernside,” Queanbeyan, was drowned in the Cotter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boy Accidently Shot Bullet in Leg
On Wednesday last a party of three 'youths were out in the bush about three miles from Captain’s Flat and about a quarter of a mile off the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shark Fatality
Terribly mauled when attacked by a shark at North Brighton yesterday, John William Eke (55) died in hospital soon after admission. His left…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accidentally Drowned Inquest at Canberra
That Wallace Henry Ford, aged 16 years, was accidentally drowned at the Cotter Pool on Sunday, January 28, was the verdict returned by the…
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A sad fatality occurred at Reedy Creek, Eurobodalla, when Reginald A. J. Richardson, aged 19, of Tilba, lost his life. The youth went into…
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George Miller, 47, of Hurstville, was killed and four other people injured, one critically, when a car crashed into a post on the corner of Botany Road…
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While attempting to swim across the Wollondilly River 50 yards below Roberts park pool, Goulburn, on Saturday afternoon, Patrick Tully, aged 9,…
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The death took place at midnight on Sunday in Yass District Hospital of Mr. John Henry Richards, aged 54, of Bookham, who was injured while…
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