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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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

Tree Felling Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 4

Robert Lusis, 28, a New Australian forestry worker, was killed by a falling tree in Uriarra hardwood forest near Canberra on Tuesday…

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Mining Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 18 January 1952 · page 1

As a result of an accident in Lake George Mines on Monday last, Henry William Simmons, aged 41 years, was killed by being hit on the…

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Two Women Killed Motor Accidents at Yass

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 January 1952 · page 3

As a result of motor accidents at Yass on Sunday, two women were killed. An Englishwoman, who was unidentified, driving a utility truck,…

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Accident on the Araluen Mountain

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 25 January 1952 · page 2

Mr. Lawrence Walsh, of Albion Park, driving an old model Dodge, with Messrs. Pat Bunch, Bill Fletcher, Frank Pratt and Royd Mc Keant, of…

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Clyde Mountain Fatality Coboner's Inquest

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 5 February 1952 · page 4

An inquest was held at Goulburn on Saturday into the dearth of the New Australian, Mr. Jan Chronowski, the victim of the fatal accident…

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Killed in Unusual Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 February 1952 · page 1

An R.A.A.F. motor cyclist died yesterday morning in Berrima District Hospital as the result of an unusual accident. The dead man, who lived in…

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Unusual Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 29 February 1952 · page 2

A. resident of Mt. Lambie, Bathurst, Mr. E. T. Roberts, suffered a fracture foot in an unusual accident. He was milking a cow when…

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Circular Saw Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 2

With a gang of men, of which he was foreman, Dominic Caelli, 52,was helping to split a large log by driving wedges into it. The log split…

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Collision Tragedy Wife Sees Husband Killed

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 March 1952 · page 2

As a lorry was being towed on to Botany Road, Mascot, yesterday, it was hit by a tram with such force that Wallace Pogonowski, 36, who…

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Porter Fatally Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 March 1952 · page 4

As he leaped over some parcels at Strathfield Station on Wednesday, Reginald John Banes, of Stanmore, relief porter was hit on the…

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Notes and News Fatal Accident at Queanbeyan

The Braidwood Review and District Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 2

On Saturday Mr. Harold Edward Crandell, aged 23 years, lost his life In a motor cycle accident. He had been working at Captain's Flat. The…

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Cars Pile Up in Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 11 March 1952 · page 4

Last Friday night when a semitrailer swereved to the side of the road, on the Hume Highway, near Bankstown. to avoid hitting a car in…

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Fatal Accident at Queanbeyan Mr. H. E. Crandeil's Fall From Motor [?]Le

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 2

At between 9 and 10 p.m. on Saturday last Mr. Harold Edward Crandell met with a fatal accident on the Tharwa road, about a quarter of a…

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Accidental Death

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 March 1952 · page 2

The Cooma District Coroner, Mr. H. V. Brigden, yesterday gave a verdict that Mangnus Fridtjov Hendriksen a Norweigian miner, was…

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Killed in Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 March 1952 · page 2

Charles Henry Moore 27 of Goulburn was killed when a car and a semi-trailer collided on the Hume Highway near Goulburn early…

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Shunters Seriously Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 2

Sydney Basil Leahy, 46, father of three children, a Goulburn railway head shunter, who had both legs and his right amputated on Tuesday…

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Accidental Death

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 April 1952 · page 2

Last Friday the Canberra Coroner, Mr F. P. Keane, held an inquest concerning the death of Fae Gladys Harman, of Gilmore Road,…

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Motor Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 4

On Saturday modning, a motor lorry wriven by Mr. E. Staneff, of River Street, Oaks, Estate, and a motor car Driven by Mrs. E. E. Butt,…

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Truck Driver Killed Collision on Highway

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 1

On Wednesday night, at the junction of Hume and Federal Highways near Goulburn, Stathis Kymantas, 27, transport driver, was…

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£14,500 Awarded to Woman Injured in Bus Smash

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 May 1952 · page 2

A Supreme Court jury in Sydney on Wednesday awarded Mrs. Florrie Burley, 52, of Collaroy Plateau, £14,500 compensation for grievous…

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