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South Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1949

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Ron Bowden Injured

The South Coast Register · Thursday 14 July 1949 · page 4

Ron Bowden is nursing a bad knee as a result of an injury he sustained in the Berry-Kiama match last Saturday. The knee…

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Two Men Committed for Trial. Sequel to Nabooma Road Accident

The Bega District News · Friday 15 July 1949 · page 1

As the result of an accident on the Princes Highway recently when a car ran into a hawser stretched across the road near Narooma two men were…

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Small Child Injured by Fall

The Bega District News · Tuesday 26 July 1949 · page 2

The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon MacDonald, of Milton Farm, Numbugga, fell at the home of her parents yesterday and sustained a…

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Crippled Man In Road Accident Sustains Double Fracture

The Bega District News · Friday 29 July 1949 · page 2

Kevin Williams, 38, a sighle man, resident of Bodalla, and a cripple the result of infantile paralysis, was the victim of a collision on the Mo[?]aro Highway last Tuesday afternoon. Williams, who owing to wasted legs,…

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Gross Negligence Caused Car Accident Magistrate Points To Drivers’ Obligations

The Bega District News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 5

The defendant was provided with a road sign, and clearly marked guide stones to indicate the curve in the highway. It was a clear night therefore the course of the road should have been in his vision before his attention was…

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Retired Farmer in Accident Could Have Been More Serious

The Bega District News · Friday 12 August 1949 · page 2

J. W. Moffitt, 65, a retired farmer, residing at Rawlinson Street, Bega, was involved In a nasty accident yesterday morning which…

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Two District Accidents Three People Admitted to Hospital

The Bega District News · Tuesday 6 September 1949 · page 2

When a horse reared and pulled away from Mr. E. G. Cochrane, of Tathra, on Wednesday, he sustained a dislocated right shoulder…

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Badly Cut in Accident

The Bega District News · Friday 16 September 1949 · page 9

Returning to Bega from Tathra on Saturday night, a car driven by Jake, Barber of Bega, left the road and crashed into a tree on the side, of he…

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Fell From Motor Cycle Man Injured on Wolumla Roar

The Bega District News · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 2

At midnight cm Saturday the ambulance was called to an accident on the Wolumla road near the aerodrome…

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Arm Broken While Plating Wallaga Lake Child in Accident

The Bega District News · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 2

While playing on the aboriginal station at Wallaga Lake, Nancy Moore, a nine year old girl, suffered a broken right arm…

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Strange Accident Cause of Injuries Unknown

The Bega District News · Tuesday 27 September 1949 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon Dick Meaker, of Tanja Road, left home to cut trees. At about six p.m. he wandered back…

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Lochiel Farmer’s Unlucky Day Fined Following Collision with Police Vehicle

The Bega District News · Friday 14 October 1949 · page 2

It was Thomas Stanislaus Mc-Cabe’s unlucky day on May 27 when he was involved in.an accident on the Pambula-Wyndham Road…

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Nasty Accident George Watson Breaks His Leg

The South Coast Register · Thursday 20 October 1949 · page 1

One of Berry’s best-known residents, Mr. George Watson, met with s very simple but unfortunate accident last week…

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Motor Accident

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 October 1949 · page 1

What could have easily been a very serious accident occurred on Sunday night last, on tie Prince’s Highway, opposite Mr. N. E…

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Accident at Tathra Wharf

The Bega District News · Tuesday 1 November 1949 · page 2

The Bega District Ambulance was called to an accident at the Tathra wharf yesterday afternoon. On arrival was found, that Evan Williams, a 16…

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Sensational Accident Two Young Women Hikers Fall Over “The Bluff” at Wattamolla

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 November 1949 · page 1

A sensational accident occurred at about 1.20 p.m. on Saturday last, that brought about a considerable amount of effort…

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Child Injured at Tathra Rain Into Passing Car

The Bega District News · Tuesday 8 November 1949 · page 2

While he was driving home at 5.30 p.m. Friday, Mr. Jack Wall, an employee of Stafford’s brickworks, was involved in an unhappy incident…

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Serious Motor Cycle Accident

The South Coast Register · Thursday 24 November 1949 · page 6

Mr. John Phillips, a student farmer from Fiji, at the farm of Mr H. G. Miller, of Foxground, met with a seniors motor cycle…

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Accidental Death in Road Fatality

The Bega District News · Friday 25 November 1949 · page 2

Mr. John H. Robbie, Coroner, returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest held into the cause of death of Colin Frank Nichelsen, 29, formerly of…

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Bermagui Stunned by Double Tragedy Fatal Motor Cycle Accident

The Bega District News · Tuesday 20 December 1949 · page 2

The community of Bermagui has been stunned by another fatal motor cycle accident which caused the death of two of Its well known…

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