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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 May 1951 · page 3

A number of accidents have taken place in the district over the past week. On Monday afternoon, Mr. H. B…

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Local and General Unusual Accident

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 15 May 1951 · page 2

As the result of a rather unusual accident on Sunday afternoon young Barry Hertbert, aged 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. a. Herbert, of Duncan Street, is…

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Queanbeyan Man Killed Four Others Injured Accident Near Goulburn

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 June 1951 · page 1

Late on Sunday night, when the car in which he was a passenger struck a lorry, Neville Peters, 21, of 33 Molonglo Street, Queanbeyan,…

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Woman Injured Motor Car Overturns

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 June 1951 · page 2

As a result of a motor car, in which she was driving, skidding on the gravel surface of the Burra Road on Tuesday last, Mrs. Gordon Moore…

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Man Killed Roadside Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 June 1951 · page 3

On Saturday evening about 7.45 o’ clock, William Murray, 50, Eastlake Hostel, A.C.T., was involved in a collision with a car and died before…

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Sequel to Motor Collision Truck Driver Fined £45 on Two Charges

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 3

“Don’t you ever read the papers and see how many people have been killed by drunken drivers. It is only common humanity for you to say,…

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Motor Cycle Accidents

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 22 June 1951 · page 1

The N.R.M.A. shares the alarm expressed by the Australian Road Safety Council at the big increase In the number of accidents involving motor…

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Guard Killed In Train Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 June 1951 · page 3

Early last night one goods train crashed into the rear of another stationary goods train at Rhodes, on the line from Strathfield to Hornsby,…

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Motor Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 27 July 1951 · page 2

On Wednesday morning about 7.15 a collision took place between a motor car driven by Mr. D. McFie and a R.A.A.F. truck at the…

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Child Drowned

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 3 August 1951 · page 4

Yesterday a two-year-old child was drowned in Fairy Creek, near Wollongong. She was the daughter of Dutch parents who arrived in Australia seven months…

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Shocking Level Crossing Accident Mr. B. J. Fitzaimmons Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 2

A shocking level crossing accident happened yesterday afternoon at what is known as Roberts’ Crossing, about four miles on the Cooma side…

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Rifle Accident Woman-Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 14 August 1951 · page 2

Mrs. June Valerie Skinner, 25, of Manildra, died in the Manildra Hospital on Sunday afternoon from [?] wound in the head…

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Remarkable Accident

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 2

Mr. Robert Robertson, of Wallsend, is not likely to forget his visit to Katoomba for some time. A lavatory seat in a guest house collapsed under his…

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Mutt and Jeff - No Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 4

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Three Injured by Racing Car

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 2

Three spectators were injured yesterday when a racing car crashed through a safety barrier at the Mt. Panorama circuit, near Bathurst…

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Roadside Collision Seven Hurt

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 5 October 1951 · page 3

On Wednesday a Pioneer Tourist coach travelling from Canberra crashed into a truck on the Federal Highway nine miles from Goulburn…

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Railway Crossing Death Accident Verdict

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 2

On Friday last the District Coroner Mr. C. L. Fischer, held an, inquest concerning the death of Bruce James Fitzsimons in a…

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Local and General Series of Accidents

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1951 · page 2

More accidents occurred In and around Braidwood on Friday than ever before on the one day. Ronald Stephens, aged 12, of Araluen road,…

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Six Killed in Week-end Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 October 1951 · page 2

Week-end accidents in New South Wales resulted in six people being killed and 23 injured. Edgar Stalzenheim, 56, married, of…

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Accident Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 November 1951 · page 2

In the Canberra Community Hospital last night, the death took place of Mervyn Clarence Peel, aged 26, as the result of an accident on Tuesday…

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