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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

82 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 3 of 5

Road Safety Road Accidents Decline

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 3

In the first quarter of 1941 road accidents in country towns and rural areas declined by 24.2 per cent., from 578 in the first three months of 1940…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 May 1941 · page 3

In the first quarter of 1941 road accidents in country towns and rural areas declined by 24.2 per cent., from 578 in the first three…

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Bren Carrier Falls From Bridge Soldier Killed- Three Others Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 3

A soldier was killed and three others were seriously injured when a Brengun carrier in which they were travelling crashed through a bridge turned…

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Fatal Motor Cycle Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 7

Aircraftman Ronald Dartnell, stationed at Richmond, was killed in a motor-cycle accident near Rouse Hill last night. He was found lying…

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Accident at Thorpe McCONVILLE'S CIRCUS

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 May 1941 · page 6

Ted Mooney, noted Taralga horseman and rodeo rider, received a probable fracture of the skull at Marulan on Wednesday night when he was…

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Taxi Driver Injured Hit with Bottle Man Sent For Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 May 1941 · page 2

While conveying a passenger along Uriarra Road on the morning of Sunday. March 16th, Mr. Vincent (“Bluey”) Heffernan was struck on the head…

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Fishing Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 7

Neville Percy Bowden (43), electrician, disappeared while fishing from the rocks two miles south of Avoca, in the Gosford district, early…

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The Queanbeyan Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 3

At the adjourned inquest into the death of Mrs. Eileen Elizabeth Browne the Coroner's finding was that Eileen Elizabeth Browne died from shock…

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Road Safety (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales). Road Accidents Pile Up Again

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 3

Seven persons are known to have been killed and scores injured in road accidents to New South Wales during last week-end. These are only…

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Road Accidents Pile Up Again (Issued by the -Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 May 1941 · page 2

Seven persons are known to have been, killed and scores injured in road accidents in New South Wales during last week-end. These are, only,…

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Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 30 May 1941 · page 1

An accident which might have been attended by very serious consequences befell Mr. C. Dunshea on Tuesday week. He was engaged in…

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Are Road Smashes Accidents? (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New, South Wales)

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 6 June 1941 · page 2

Casualty lists for the first four months of this year show that people are still being on the roads of the State at the rate of…

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Road Safety (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales). Are Road Smashes Accidents?

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 June 1941 · page 5

Casualty lists for the first four months of this year show that people are still being killed on the roads of the State at the rate of 31 a month…

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Road Safety (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales). Weather Changes Accident Causes

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 5

The harvest of the roads, in the form of accidents, goes by the seasons, and the largest is in the winter. Never has there been any sign…

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Driver Wins Sessions Appeal Tragic Accident Recalled

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 3

At the Goulburn Quarte Sessions last Thursday before Judge Stacy, William J. L. Hawke of Thirroul successfully appealed…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 June 1941 · page 2

The harvest of the roads, in the form of accidents, goes by seasons, and the largest is in the winter. Never has there been any sign of a “drought,”…

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Woman Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 1

Less than half an hour after she left a house in Kenmore Street, Goulburn, early yesterday morning, Mrs. Amelia May Alders, 58, was found drowned in…

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Notes and News Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 1 July 1941 · page 2

Our Araluen correspondent writes: Beverley Lambert, the 81/2-years-old daughter of Constable and Mrs. A. J. Lambert, Araluen, met with a…

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Two Boys Drowned in Dam

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 August 1941 · page 2

Two boys, John David Nash, 10 years, and his brother, Leslie Lionel Nash, 5 years, were drowned yesterday in a dam at Fairfield…

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Two Killed in Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 August 1941 · page 7

MELBOURNE.— A man and a woman were killed and another woman critically injured when the car in which they were travelling collided…

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