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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1968

112 stories in Queanbeyan & Braidwood's papers · page 1 of 6

Farm accidents can be avoided

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 16 January 1968 · page 6

New South Wales Department of Agriculture machinery officer Mr. Doug Lackie, and today that farm accidents were increasing each year, but he felt…

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Worker Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 1

A 32-year-old man was admitted to hospital for observation after being struck on the head by a…

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Jockey Injured in Trial

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 1

A jockey was injured on Sunday morning when he was thrown from a horse competing in a…

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Dog causes motor cycle accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 23 January 1968 · page 3

Twenty year-old Queanbeyan motor cyclist, David William Morton, of McQuoid Street,…

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Man injured in fall from fire tanker

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 2 February 1968 · page 1

A bushfire lighter on his way to a fire near Michelago was injured when he fell from a fire…

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Four Injured in Two Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1968 · page 1

Queanbeyan District Ambulance sent two waggons racing to the scene of an accident on the Bungendore Road on Sunday night after an exaggerated report…

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Child injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1968 · page 1

A small child was injured this afternoon when struck by a vehicle in Monaro Street, near the…

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Minor accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 February 1968 · page 6

A truck and sedan were involved in a minor accident at the intersection of Surveyor Street and Ross…

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Truck Driver Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 February 1968 · page 1

A load of crated glass shifting is believed to have caused a semi-trailer driven by Geoff Rudd,…

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Accident near Sutton

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 February 1968 · page 4

A 29-year-old Canberra resident, Geoff Cowan, was conveyed to Canberra Community Hospital by…

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Two men injured in club brawl

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 February 1968 · page 1

Two men were taken to hospital by ambulance after a disturbance in an unregistered Crawford…

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Road Safety Human failure accidents can be prevented

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 February 1968 · page 2

It was an inescapable fact that road users would continue to be maimed and killed in motor vehicle accidents unless they came to realise that road…

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Motorist Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 February 1968 · page 1

A Queanbeyan motorist was admitted to hospital suffering lacerations to the face and bruising to…

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Bus Accident at ’Flat

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 27 February 1968 · page 1

Late yesterday afternoon within a mile of Captain’s Flat, the local bus hurtled out of…

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Minor accident in Monaro Street

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 1 March 1968 · page 2

Minor damage was caused to two vehicles involved in an accident in Monaro Street on…

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Motorists injured in weekend acciedents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 March 1968 · page 1

Several motorists and passengers were injured but none seriously in a number of accidents in the Queanbeyan police district at the weekend. Dennis A. Greacon, of…

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Boy injured in fall from weir

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 5 March 1968 · page 1

Seven-year-old Gary Phillips of Uriarra Road, was admitted to the Queanbeyan District…

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Boy slightly injured in cycle accident

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 March 1968 · page 1

Seven year-old Robert William Norton, suffered a laceration to the right ankle following an…

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Freak accident causes 30-minute blackout

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 8 March 1968 · page 1

A freak accident this morning caused a power blackout of about 30 minutes in the Queanbeyan and hospital areas of the town. A workman at an East…

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Free Brigade Called to Accident Scene

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 12 March 1968 · page 1

Queanbeyan Volunteer Fire Brigade attended the scene of an accident during the early hours of yesterday morning after a car crashed into the rear of another vehicle, forcing it into the rear of a third vehicle parked in front of it…

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