Road Safety Lives Blighted by Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 1
Through road accidents in this State since December 1 last six children have been orphaned, and from once happy homes they are now…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1940 · page 3
Through road accidents in this State since December 1 last, six children have been orphaned and from once happy homes they are…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3
Figures released by the Chief Officer of Police at Canberra (Colonel H. E. Jones) show that motorists who failed to give way to traffic approaching on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ths Sorrow of Road Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 3
In the accidents that have occurred on the roads of New South Wales in the last 14 days the following tragedies are recorded:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Policemen Injured
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 4
When a police car, in which they were travelling, left the road in the early hours of Friday morning last, and crashed into a poplar tree at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Road Safety the Sorrow of Road Accidents
The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1940 · page 8
In the accidents that have occurred on the roads of New South Wales in the last 14 days the following tragedies are recorded:…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sequel to Fatality Motor Driver Discharged by P.M
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 3
At the Goulburn Police Court on Monday, Kevin Woods, 25, Carrier, of Faithfull Street. Goulburn, was discharged on a count of having driven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local and General Fatal Accident at Show
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 3
The Braidwood Show was marred by an accident to a young boy named Colin Gordon Tetley, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Tetley, of Marlowe,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Gunpowder Explodes Two Men Critically Injured
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 1
A shocking accident occurred pt Binalong on Sunday afternoon, when 20 Ibs. of blasting powder exploded in a spring cart in which Sidney Neenan…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Week- End Road Accidents Three Persons Killed
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 March 1940 · page 2
A collision occurred between a motor cycle and a motor van early on Sunday morning in Liverpool Road, Canley Vale Alan Martz, 22, of Annandale, rider of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sequel to Collision Plaintiff Awarded £238/6/9 Right of Way on Roads
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 1
“Though there have been efforts made to have the law altered, there is no such law in New South Wales giving the person on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mother and Child Drowned
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 2
The bodies of Mrs. Charlotte Cud. by and her seven-months-old son, Alan, were recovered yesterday from three feet of water in Hollingsworth…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Child Accidents on Roads Parents’ Responsibility
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 4
Request has been made, by several country branches of the Road Safety Council that a State-wide appeal should be made to all parents to see…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Negligent Driving Collision on Uriarra Road “Error of Judgment”
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 2
At Canberra Police Court yesterday, before M. J. Ryan, P.M., Stanley White, of Sutton, was charged with negligent driving on January 27…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ran Into Sheep Motor Cyclist Injured
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 April 1940 · page 1
Norman Wannell, a labourer, residing at Dulwich Hill, Sydney, received severe injuries when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a straying…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Road Safety Real Accident Causes
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3
The question has often been asked: What is the most serious cause of the deaths in road accidents? Actually there are more than 200…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Real Accident Causes (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 3
The question has often been asked: What is the most serious cause of the deaths in road accidents? Actually there are more than 200 causes of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Head-on Collision Three Persons Killed
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 3
On Saturday night, William Alan Edmund Lyons, 21, boatbuilder, of The Spit; William Meredith Fisher, 21, also a boatbuilder; of aMroubra; and Arthur…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Men Drowned Washed Off the Rocks
Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 2
Three men members of a fishing party of four, were drowned when they were washed off the rocks at a point known as The Gulf between…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Odd Accidents
The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 April 1940 · page 3
In Chicago the National Safety Council published its annual collection of Odd Accidents of the Year. Oddest:…
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