Sad Fatality
Clifford Vedmore, 10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Vedmore, of Kangaloon, was killed on Wednesday, when the wheel of a lorry driven by…
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Accidents, 1939
32 stories in Southern Highlands's papers · page 1 of 2
Show Horse Kills Itself. Unusual Accident
Ad unusual accident resulted in Mrs. J. F. Hennessy, of Queen Street. Bowral, losing a valuable show bone on Saturday. The bone was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brave Train Driver. Sticks to Post Though Injured
When the pressure guage on the second division of the Melbourne Express burst near Bowral on Sunday. Driver Matson, of Goulburn, was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mr. Thorby in Accident Woman Badly Hurt
The Minister for Civil Aviation, Mr. Thorby, and Mr. P. W. Nette, former Official Receiver in Bankruptcy, and now chief accountant of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Rate Falls Attack on Road Accidents
The Minister for Transport, Colonel Bruxner, who is President of the safety Safety Council of New South Wales, announces that in the first six months…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Accidental Death Coroner's Finding
A finding of accidental death was recorded by the district coroner, Mr. W. Terry, at an inquest into the death…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Parents Killed Cost of Road Accidents
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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Road Safety Skids Cause Accidents
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…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Motor Accidents: Insurance Payments (From Harsard, 3 5-39)
Mr. Jeff Bate: I ask the Minister for Transport w[?] thier it is a fact that the Government refuses to alleviate the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Accidents at Corners. Care at Intersections
A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increase in Road Accidents
Speaking before a new branch at Goulburn of the Road Safety Council, the Commissioner of Transport, Mr, C. N. Neale, said that last year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Accidents at Corners
"A most unsatisfactory feature of the statistics compiled in the Department of Road Transport is the large number of accidents due to the failure…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Footballers Injured
Football casualties were heavy during the week-end. R. Nankiville, a member of the Mittagong team, was injured while playing against…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winter Dangers Road Accident Causes
Serious road accidents, many of them fatal, have been reported from almost all parts of the State in the last few weeks and the principal cause…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warning to Cyclists. Accident Rate Increases
The Road Safety Council of New South Wales appeals to all road users to exercise the greatest possible care and to co-operate with the traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Benefit Dance. Injured Soccer Player Assisted
Both Soccer players and their friends showed practical sympathy on Saturday night when over two hundred and seventy of them attended the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Winter Dangers on the Roads. Causes of Road Accidents
Serious road accidents, many of them fatal, have been reported from almost all parts of the State in the last few weeks and the principal cause has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Killed. Accident I at Yerrinbool
Five valuable stud ewes were killed u a result of an accident at Yerrinbool on Tuesday. Mr. Victor Jelliman, of Yass, was driving a lorry and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Unexpected Cause of Road Accidents
What causes a road accident ? This question was put to world traffic authorities recently and the final answer was, meeting the unexpected…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Whose Fault Was It ? How Accidents are Caused and How They Cap be Avoided. (Issued by the Road Safety Council of New South Wales)
It is not only in major accidents involving litigation that disputes as to responsibility can arise. Take this case, which occurred recently. On a…
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