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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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

Motor Cycle Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 2

A serious motor cycle accident occurred on Saturday, resulting in a young married woman, Mrs. Davis, who is a daughter or Mrs. H. Nielsen…

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Freak Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1950 · page 3

The million to one chance came home on Sunday when Mr. Allan Elliott was practising his golf swing in the back yard of his home. As Mr…

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Statements After Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 15 September 1950 · page 3
Also in Queanbeyan Age

The N.R.M.A. advises motorists to be careful About giving statements particularly signed ones, after they have been involved in accidents until…

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Accident Costs a Grazier £3000 Prime Ewes Die From Arsenic Poisoning

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1950 · page 1

Four hundred prime young merino ewes, worth about £3,000, died recently on a western district grazing property after eating from an old tin half-full…

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Sequel to Narooma Fatal Accident Orphaned Boy Awarded 18,150 Damages

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 17 October 1950 · page 2

A lad of 11 years, orphaned by a ghastly road accident near Narooma in June, 1949, when his father and mother and a sister…

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Roadside Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 2

Early on Saturday morning, while returning from Yass to Canberra, the motor car in which three Canbera men were traveling, ran off the…

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Drowned in Flooded Creek

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 3

The body of Edward Patrick Corey 50, farmer, of Jingera, was found by a nephew from Braidwood on Saturday morning wedged under a…

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Jingera Man Drowned While Attempting to Cross a Flooded Cheek

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 24 October 1950 · page 2

Floodwaters swept away and drowned the driver of a utility truck a creek crossing, 12 miles from Captain's Flat, early on Saturday morning. He…

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Motor Cyclists Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 31 October 1950 · page 2

On Saturday last, when a motor cycle skidded in loose gavel and ran into a post on Uriarra Road, Queanbeyan, two, men suffered fractured…

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Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 21 November 1950 · page 4

On 12th instant while a lad named Peter Brown was holding a horse, a greyhound dog ran behind causing the horse to rear. In coming down the…

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Motor Cyclist Find Sequel to Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 24 November 1950 · page 3

Before Mr. A. J. Paten, S.M., at the Court of Petty Sessions last Wednesday charges were preferred [?]…

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Train Mishap Driver and Fireman Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 December 1950 · page 3

Yesterday morning while , a goods train was proceeding through a tunnel south of Bungendore on the way to Queanbeyan about 7.30, the driver…

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Fatal Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 December 1950 · page 2

The entire district was sadly shocked to hear of the sudden demise of Mr. Jack Thomson, who, with his hearty good-natured manner, had…

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Bridge Fatality Coroner’s Inquest

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 December 1950 · page 2

At the inquest held by the Queanbeyan Coroner, Mr. F. G. Ruffles, last Friday, the following evidence was given concerning the death of…

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Boy Drowned in Dam

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 December 1950 · page 2

While three boys, none of whom could swim, were in a dam supporting themselves on inflated tubes, one lost his grip and sank into a deep pothole…

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