Road Safety Risks That Cause Accidents (Issued by the Road Safely Council of New South Wales)
The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 2
I suppose there aren't many motorists who have not had the experience of bumping into the rear of another car or of being bumped on the…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 September 1940 · page 3
I suppose there aren’t many motorists who have [?] had the experience of either bumping into the rear of another car or of being bumped on the…
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The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 September 1940 · page 2
MELBOURNE.—Mrs. Lucy Irene Catton (36) and Miss Myrtle Elma were drowned while swimming at Burnley. It is believed that Mrs…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 September 1940 · page 1
While crossing the bow of an oversea freighter to pick up a line yesterday, the tug Hero was sunk and the engineer was dragged down in the tug,…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 September 1940 · page 2
Eighty-three child evacuee, aged between five and fifteen, were drowned when the ship on which they were being conveyed from Britain to Canada was…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 1
There was 51 level-crossing accidents during the year ended June 30 1940. In the previous year there were many more, and in the present…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 October 1940 · page 4
There were 51 level crossing accidents during the year ended June 30th 1940. In the previous year there were many more and in the present…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 October 1940 · page 3
Delivering reserved judgment in the Supreme Court on Friday,, His Honour Judge Lukin awarded. Geoffrey Herbert Dean, of Queanbeyan, £800 damages…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 8 October 1940 · page 6
Delivering reserved judgment in the Supreme Court on Friday, bis Honor Judge Lukin awarded Geoffrey Herbert Dean, of Queanbeyan, £800…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 October 1940 · page 2
Mr. A. Bagnall, a member of the Shire gang engaged in the reconstruction work on the Tarago road, met with an extremely painful accident…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 October 1940 · page 2
[?]Mullaney, upholsterer, of 40 Prince’s Highway, Arnecliffe, was injured by his own dog, Wee. Wonder, at the Goulburn Sportsground during…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 5
New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few more causes of road accidents. Immediately the new conditions…
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The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 7
Two girls, Daphne Best (19) end Asta Kilp (11) were killed and three others injured when the car in which they were travelling overturned in…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 November 1940 · page 4
New conditions caused by petrol rationing have created a few more causes of road accidents. Immediately the new conditions…
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The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2
Behind each of the 28 fatal accidents already reported in this State for October there is probably a pitiful story of anguish and desolation. Some…
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Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 November 1940 · page 2
Behind, each of the 28 fatal accident already reported in this State for October there is probably a pitiful story o anguish and desolation…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 3 December 1940 · page 1
Dennis Malloy, 50, drover, was drowned on Saturday while swimming his horse across a flooded lagoon at North wagga. Malloy could not swim,…
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Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 December 1940 · page 2
At a sewing circle at Hoskinstown recently, Mrs. Ross, member of a well-known district family, gave an interesting account of a collision between two…
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The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 December 1940 · page 2
Merle Lawson (18) was bathing in the Lake George Mining Company's dam at the week-end when she sank in deep water and was drowned. The…
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The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 13 December 1940 · page 2
When half a mile on the Captain's Flat side of Foxlow Station two cars met in a head-on collision. In one car were Mrs. M. A. Hobbins, who…
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