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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Accidents

Accidents, 1970

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Two car accidents can only occur 6 ways

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 4 August 1970 · page 4

It is quite amazing really to realise that accidents involving two vehicles can only occur six different ways. All two car crashes star in one of these…

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Passenger slightly injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 7 August 1970 · page 1

A woman was taken to hospital and allowed to leave after treatment following an accident in…

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Uriarra Road Fatality

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 18 August 1970 · page 1

A 25-year-old Canberra man, David Christie Blades, of 55 Pridham Street, Farrar, was killed early on Saturday morning when this car overturned in Uriarra Road. The accident occurred at about 6.05am near the Railway Avenue intersection. Blades suffered extensive head injuries when he was thrown out…

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Four injured in collision

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1970 · page 1

A woman and four children were injured and taken to hospital for treatment when two…

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Wounded in shooting accident

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 25 August 1970 · page 1

A Captain’s Flat youth escaped with a flesh wound in a shooting accident about three miles…

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Minor accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 28 August 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan police have attended a number of minor road accidents this week, but no persons…

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Couple seriously injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 1 September 1970 · page 1

A young Sydney couple were seriously injured on Sunday morning when their car was involved in…

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Accidents — But None Serious

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 8 September 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan police have attended to a number of traffic accidents over the weekend and…

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Accidents Reach 514

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 11 September 1970 · page 1

There have been 514 road accidents within the Queanbeyan Police District to take in the current…

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Spate of Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 15 September 1970 · page 1

One of two cars involved in a head-on collision on the Federal Highway, 21 miles from Queanbeyan, on Sunday afternoon, which resulted in seven people being brought to Queanbeyan hospital by ambulance, four of whom were subsequently taken to Canberra for specialist treatment. Driver of one car, Mr…

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Signs Fail to “Stop” Accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 22 September 1970 · page 3

Accidents continue to occur with regularity at the intersection of Donald and Fergus Roads,…

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Police report 11 accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 29 September 1970 · page 1

Eleven traffic accidents have been reported to Queanbeyan police since Friday, they said today. The most serious was…

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Quiet holiday weekend... One injured on district roads

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 6 October 1970 · page 1

Queanbeyan police and ambulance report a comparatively quiet six-hour-day holiday weekend despite an influx of visitors and heavy traffic on district highways and main roads…

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Minor accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 9 October 1970 · page 1

Police have received reports of only two minor accidents this week, one involving damage over…

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Couple injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1970 · page 1

A Sydney couple was admitted to the District Hospital on Sunday afternoon following an…

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Avoid motor mower accidents

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 13 October 1970 · page 11

Early Spring and motor mowers go together, but, unfortunately, so do some nastyq accidents, Miss M. Breen, Acting Director of State Health Education, said this week…

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Schoolboy Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 16 October 1970 · page 1

A seven-year-old schoolboy, Patrick Slawson, of Margaret Street, was injured on Tuesday…

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Ten Accidents—three Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 October 1970 · page 1

Three people were injured in two of ten accidents reported to Queanbeyan police over the weekend. William Ross Smith, of…

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Injured at Rodeo

Queanbeyan Age · Tuesday 20 October 1970 · page 1

Two riders were brought to Queanbeyan District Hospital for treatment when they…

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Schoolboy Injured

Queanbeyan Age · Friday 23 October 1970 · page 1

A 12-year-old schoolboy escaped with minor injuries on Tuesday afternoon when struck…

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