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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

56 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 2 of 3

Shocking Accident to Motorist

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 June 1948 · page 4

A warning to motorists against driving with the elbow protruding outside the car window is provided by a recent shocking accident in…

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Tragic Train Accident Worst in New South Wales for 22 Years Braidwood Man Killed

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 2

Five people were killed and more than 35 injured, some seriously, when the South-West Mail, travelling from Sydney to Narrandera, was derailed…

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Shocking Accident Motorists

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 4

A warning to motorists against driving with the elbow protruding outside the car window, is provided by a recent shocking accident in…

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Fatal Railway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 July 1948 · page 2

The first fatal accident on the New South Wales Railways since 1926 happened when the South West mail train crashed over an embankment…

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39 Killed in Air Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 2

Thirty-nine people were killed on Sunday afternoon when an R.A.F. Transport Command York airliner and a Swedish Skymaster collided ever…

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Truth by Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1948 · page 1

A story is told about a country newspaper and a preacher who was renowned for his long and wearisome sermons. The newspaper had…

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"Strike Neurosis" and Road Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 4

Public irritation over the failure to solve major industrial problems, allied with John Citizen's difficulties in remaining warm in the exceptional…

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Tractor Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 3

While working on Bowvlie Station, Gundaroo, yesterday, Mr. Bedford Osborne suffered a fractured left leg abrasions and shock when the…

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“Strike” Neurosis and Road Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 July 1948 · page 2

Public irritation over the failure to solve major industrial problems, allied with John Citizen’s difficulties in remairing warm in the…

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No Trams, No Road Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 20 July 1948 · page 4
Also in Queanbeyan Age

July. 11, the first tramless Sunday in Sydney because of the coal famine, was noticeably free of serious road accidents. The N.R.M.A. regards this…

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Man Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 July 1948 · page 2

On his brother’s property 12 miles from Wagga, where he had been staying for some weeks, Oswald Victor McLarty, 50 of Homebush, was found…

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Child Drowned Sad Fatality Occurs in The—shoalhaven River

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2

One of the saddest fatalities in the history of Braidwood occurred on Friday last at Charleyong, when a baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harrie Colin…

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Little Girl Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 3

On Friday last a baby daughter not quite two years old, of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Roberts, of Charleyong, near Braidwood, wandered from…

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Deaths From Road Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2

In road accidents at the weekend two men were fatally injured. Percival Singleton, 60, of Drummoyre, was knocked down by a car…

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Three Killed Train and Lorry Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 20 August 1948 · page 3

On Wednesday afternoon three men were killed and seven other people injured when a, steam ,train, ran into a motor lorry, loaded with…

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Police View on Road Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 August 1948 · page 1
Also in Queanbeyan Age

An appeal to reasonable road-users to co-operate with the police in obeying the safety laws is made by the N.R.M.A., following a conference with…

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Road Accidents Cash costs

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 August 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY : an economic loss of £10 million is caused each year by road accidents throughout Australia, estimated the Australian…

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Shaw's Creek Fatality

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 7 September 1948 · page 1

A dizzy spell caused by influenza may have led to a fatal accident suffered recently by a 63-years-old grazier, the Goulburn Coroner's Court…

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