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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1961

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Young Footballer Dies in Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 June 1961 · page 6

One of the most promising young footballers in Group 8 and a member of a well-known Captain’s Flat family, John Pilley, aged 19, was killed in a road…

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Coroner Finds Schoolboy’s Was Accidental

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 June 1961 · page 2

The Queanbeyan District Coroner, Mr. G. Hughes, found yesterday, that a schoolboy, killed in Lowe Street, on May 9th had died of injuries accidentally received. Mr. Hughes conducted an…

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Early Morning Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 June 1961 · page 1

A car was extensively damaged in the early hours of Saturday morning, when it collided with an embankment…

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Main Street Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1961 · page 1

Only minor damage was caused to two vehicles that collided In Monaro Street last Thursday night…

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Local Man Charged After Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1961 · page 1

As a result of an accident In Tharwa Road on Saturday day night, a Queanbeyan man has been charged with…

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Accident Yesterday Morning

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 June 1961 · page 1

An accident occurred In Monaro Street yesterday morning at about 8;15 a.m. causing extensive damage…

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Collision Wednesday Morning

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 30 June 1961 · page 1

Minor damage was caused when two cars collided at the intersection of Uriarra Road and Ross Road on…

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Extensive Damage in Two Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 July 1961 · page 1

Extensile damage was caused to vehicles involved in two accidents reported Queanbeyan Police over the weekend. However, no persons were…

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D.U.I. Charge Following Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 July 1961 · page 1

A Queanbeyan man was charged with driving Tinder the influence following a collision last Friday night…

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Burra Road Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 14 July 1961 · page 1

A Canberra man was injured when the car he was driving careered off the road and struck a tree…

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Captain’s Flast News and Notes Miner injured in 50 ft. Fall

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 July 1961 · page 6

A well-known Captain’s Flat miner, Mr. Jim Meehan was injured in a fall in the mine last Friday…

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Federal Highway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 July 1961 · page 1

A Sydney man had a lucky escape from serious injury when negotiating a left-band bend on the…

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Accidents Occurred on Straight Roads, Not on Curves

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 July 1961 · page 6

“It is the human being and not the machine that was responsible for death and injury on the road in the modern mechanised civilisation,” Field Officer of…

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Accident Victim Dies In Hospital

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 21 July 1961 · page 1

Mr. William Thomas (Bill) O’Rourke, of 82 Atkinson Street, who was critically injured in a road accident on Wednesday night, passed away in the Queanbeyan…

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Drunk Driver Involved In Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 July 1961 · page 4

A man whose vehicle was involved in an accident in Tharwa Road on June 24, was fined £30 when he…

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Collision With Embankment On Bungendore Road

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 July 1961 · page 1

A car ran off the Bungendore Road and collided wiht an embankment on Saturday night at about 9…

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Early Morning Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 July 1961 · page 1

A collision occurred in Ross Road during the early hours of Wednesday morning…

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Ambulances Called To Highway Accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 August 1961 · page 2

Many observers noticed and heard two ambulances travelling along McQuoid Street and Yass Road at about 2 p.m. lost Saturday afternoon on their…

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Vehicle Overturns , After Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 August 1961 · page 1

A vehicle involved in a collision at 7.10 a.m. yesterday, came to a, stop on its side…

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Minor Damage In Main Street Collision

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 4 August 1961 · page 1

Minor damage was caused to two vehicles that collided on Monaro Street last Tuesday afternoon…

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