Local Toll of Road
For the year ended December 31, 1951, there were 545 accidents involving motor vehicles in…
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Railways, roads & transport, 1952
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19 Road Deaths During Holidays
Sydney—Three people were killed and ll were injured in N.S.W. road accidents yesterday. The fatalities were the first road deaths of the year. Police said 19…
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Sydney. — Including 20 persons killed between December 23 and New Year's Day, 733 persons were killed…
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During 1951 there were 545 road accidents in Broken Mill, in which 16 persons were killed or fatally. Injured. Over the holiday period…
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Sydney, January 2.—Last year was the worst year on record for food accidents, the Commissioner for Road…
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The R.A.A. guide (Mr. O. Harrison) to-day warned motorists to exercise caution on two bad places on the AdelaideâBroken Hill road where cattle grids have been…
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Adelaide. — In 7068 road accidents in South Australia in the first 11 months of last year, 160…
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Melbourne, Jan. 3.—Government Investigations will be made at Luna Park, St Kilda, where more than 40 people…
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John Francis Dillon was remanded yesterday by Mr. C. K. Ward, S.M., to appear before the court on January 10 to answer to charges of: (1) manslaughter (2) negligent driving (3) failure to stop after an…
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Brisbane.—Thirty people were rescued by ladders from a derailed train which ran on to a bridge after an…
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Adelaide, January 4.—Police statistics reveal that in the first 11 months of last year there were 7.068 road accidents in S.A. 160…
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Local R.A.A. patrolman. Mr. O. J. Harrison, said yesterday that for the benefit of motorists who are expected to be returning from Adelaide during the weekend, word has been sent advising them of a bad ditch…
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An inquest will be conducted by the City ' Coroner (Mr. C. K. Ward) at the Courthouse tomorrow into…
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Sydney. —A woman returning' from her sister's funeral was injured when her husband's car was…
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USUALLY interrupted roadway between Adelaide and Broken Hill in bad weather occurs rather more in this State than in South Australia. At any rate there are more…
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Nearly 50 Broken Hill passengers were stranded at Parkes for 48 hours and had to sleep in an old railway carriage because, of a shocking blunder in the Rail ways Depriment organisation The passengers arrived at…
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At an inquest opened today the City Coroner (Mr. C. K. Ward), inquired into the circumstances surrounding the Menindee road fatality of December 23. Three deaths resulted efrom the accident, which involved three motor vehicles…
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Sydney, Jan. 3—A six-months old baby boy was found abandoned in a carriage of an electric train at St. James station on Sunday…
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Broken Hill's road accident during 1951 totalled 545—an aver age of more than ten accidents week. There is no record of the…
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When an inquest into the deaths of three persons involved in a road accident an December 23 opened before the Coroner, Mr. C.K. Ward, yesterday…
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