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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1939

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Death Rate Falls Attack on Road Accidents — (Issued by the Road Safety Council of N.S.W.)

The South Coast Register · Thursday 30 March 1939 · page 3

The Minister for Transport, Colonel Bruxner, who is president of the Road Safety Council of New South Wales, announces that in the…

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A Serious Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 8

A serious accident occurred on the late hours of Friday night when Mr. R. Blackmail was driving a single seater car, with Mr. Gordon Fawcett…

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Parents Killed. Cost of Road Accidents

The Bega District News · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 4

Last Easter a man, his wife, and two children were motoring along one of the State highways to bring home for the holidays a daughter…

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Parents Killed. Cost of Road Accidents

The Nowra Leader · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

Last Easter a man, his wife and two young children were motoring along one of the State highways to bring home for the holidays a…

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Parents Killed Cost of Road Accidents (Issued by the Road Council Safety of N.S.W.)

The South Coast Register · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 6

Last Easter a man, his wife and two young children were motoring along one of the Slate highways to bring home for the holidays a…

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Motor Accident

The South Coast Register · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 2

A serious accident occurred at the Kiama post office corner about 5.20 a.m. on Good Friday. A car driven by W. R. Pye, of Cabramatta, and…

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Sad Fatal Accident

The South Coast Register · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 2

Sitting with [?] another in Memorial Park at Kiama, one minute, and the next to be run over and [?] by a metal trail., was the sail [?] of…

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Show Accident Jack McGee Hits Hurdle

The South Coast Register · Thursday 13 April 1939 · page 5

Jack McGee, who had a very successful time at the R.A.S. Show riding Mr. Englebert’s burses over the jumps, was the victim of what…

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Holiday Accidents

The Nowra Leader · Friday 14 April 1939 · page 1

Although holidays invariably mean motor accidents of various nature, Nowra was more or less free of this during the Easter week-end. The…

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Motor Collision

The South Coast Register · Thursday 20 April 1939 · page 5

Mr. Put Maguire, a well-Known business man of Nowra, had the misfortune to be the victim of a motor collision on Tuesday morning of last…

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Motor Collision. Defendant Convicted

The Nowra Leader · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 7

At Nowra Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr. Balmain, S.M., the police proceeded against Bernard Hilton App[?]rley for not giving way to motor…

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Motors in Collision

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 26 April 1939 · page 7

A sequel to a recent collision between a motor truck and a car, on the Greenwell Point road, was heard at the Nowra Police Court last week,…

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Prone to Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 5

A PARTY OF SIX FOOTBALLERS en route to Goulbum to engage in a match the following day experienced a remarkable escape from…

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Rood Safety. Skids Cause Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety Council)

The Bega District News · Monday 8 May 1939 · page 1

Road accident reports from country centres for last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding, and in the coming months…

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Road Safety Skids Cause Accidents (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)

The South Coast Register · Thursday 11 May 1939 · page 1

Road accident reports from country centres for last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding, and in the coming months…

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Road Safety. Skids Cause Accident

The Nowra Leader · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 9

Road accident reports from country centres for last month indicate that a high proportion was due to skidding and in the coming months many more…

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A Chapter of Accidents Berry Footballers “In the Wars”

The South Coast Register · Thursday 18 May 1939 · page 3

By no stretch of imagination could lust Saturday’s game between Berry and Nowra be called rough, but four Berry players suffered…

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Accidents At Corners (Issued by Road Safety Council.)

The Bega District News · Monday 22 May 1939 · page 1

“A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Dept. Road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the failure…

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Accidents at Corners

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 24 May 1939 · page 4

“A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the failure…

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Fatal Crash On Prince’s Highway One Dead, Two Injured

The South Coast Register · Thursday 25 May 1939 · page 1

A terrible crash occurred near Figtree on Friday night last, when a motor car, travelling to Wollongong, collided with a lorry…

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