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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1945

54 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 3

Fatal Car Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 January 1945 · page 1

At an early hour on Sunday morning a motor accident on Braidwood Road, two miles south of Komungla turn-off, caused the death of Alfred…

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Woman Killed in Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 January 1945 · page 2

When a car and a motor cycle collided near Minnamurra bridge in the Kiama district, on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs. Gwenneth Linda Hawtrey,…

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Car Overturns at Michelago Three People Injured From our Michelago correspondent

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 January 1945 · page 1

After spending the day at Bredbo on Sunday, Captain Wilson, of the R.M.C., was returning to Canberra with his wife and daughter…

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Tram Accident Queanbeyan Youth Leg

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 February 1945 · page 2

While trying to board a tram in Ramsay Road, Haberfield, on Sunday afternoon, Lawrence Victor Southwell, aged 19, son of Mr. and Mrs…

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Fatal Car Smash Car Runs Under Timber-Laden Lorry Fantastic Accident in Braidwood's Main Street

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 23 February 1945 · page 2

One man was killed and five others injured one critically, on Wednesday night in one of the most' extraordinary motor acct-…

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The Recent Car Accident Second Victim Dies

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1945 · page 3

After having been in Braidwood [?]hospital since the tragic car and lorry decision in Wallace Street on Wednesday night, the driver of the…

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The Recent Car Accident Condition of Survivors Satisfactory

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 March 1945 · page 2

Inquiry at the Goulbiurn Hospital by telephone yesterday revealed that the condition of the four survivors of the recent tragic car smash In Braldwood…

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Train Collision

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 4

Eighteen civilians and about 25 personnel of the R.A.A.F. were injured when, a Sydney-bound train crashed head-on into a stationary Air Force…

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The Accident That Wasnt. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 March 1945 · page 1

Police officers see many unique things that are not recorded in their note books. Perhaps it is a pity that some of the things they see are not…

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Well Fatality Man’s Neck Broken

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 1

On Tuesday afternoon while working on a well in a property off Booth Pietro (Peter) Cancillier was buried by a quantity of earth. He had…

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

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 March 1945 · page 2

Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of the State showed increases in 1944 over the previous year. In the combined areas there…

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Well Fatality Verdict of Accidental Death

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 March 1945 · page 1

The Deputy-Coroner (Mr. E. R. Boardman) conducted an inquest at the Court House, Queanbeyan, this morning concerning the death of…

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Road Accidents Increase

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 April 1945 · page 4

Road accidents in country towns and rural areas of the State showed increases in 1944 over the previous year. In the combined areas there…

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Soldier Killed in Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 13 April 1945 · page 3

When a car and a transport truck met in a head-on collision on the Pacific Highway near Chinderah on Wednesday night, an A.I.F. sergeant…

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Local and General Riding Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 17 April 1945 · page 1

At Dora Creek on Sunday, in sight of his parents, James Catling, aged 8 years, who was learning to ride a horse, was thrown when it shied and…

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Milton Fatality

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 3

A sad fatality occurred recently when Ronald Duncan, aged 18, son of Mrs. L.J. Vider, of "Glen Iris," Milton and the late James Duncan, was…

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The Recent Fatal Collision Lengthy Coronial Inquiry Finding of Accidental Death

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 1

THE Coroner's inquest touching the deaths of Norman Norris and Thomas Hickey, which occurred as a result of a collision between a car and timber-laden linker in Wallace Street, Braidwood, on the night of February 21, was commenced at the Courthouse on Tuesday morning…

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Three Dead, Two Injured. Balmain Colliery Explosion SYDNEY

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 April 1945 · page 1

An explosion at Balmain Colliery this morning resulted in the death of three men and the serious injury of two others…

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Child Drowned in Well

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 May 1945 · page 2

Last seen by her mother at 1.45 p.m. and seen about an hour later 100 yards from home, Dorothy Coates, aged 4, of Keiraville, had not returned…

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Telegraphic News Launch Tragedy—doctors Drowned

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 18 May 1945 · page 3

Five young men, four of them doctors, and one medical student, are believed to have been drowned when the 40ft. launch in which they were…

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