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Illawarra · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

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15 Accidents in Victoria

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 April 1953 · page 2

Two men have died and many others have been injured in accidents on Victorian roads during…

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No Serious Accidents in Wollongong

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 1

Police said last night the absence of roda deaths or serious accidents in Greater Wollongong district until midnight last night might be a record for a…

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Footballer Dies After Accident

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 1

Jeffrey Ralston, first grade Rugby League footballer who had been married only six weeks, died…

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Record Easter Traffic But Few Accidents

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 6 April 1953 · page 1

Despite record Easter traffic along the South Coast, police and ambulance report one of their quietest holidays for year. It was a camping holiday for…

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Leg Broken In Collision

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 3

A motor cyclist suffered a broken leg when he was involved in a collision with a car at Nowra…

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Head Injured In Fall on Rocks

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 April 1953 · page 5

A young woman suffered serious head injuries when she slipped on the rocks near Wollongong Baths…

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Boy Injured In Fall From Bicycle

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 3

A 12-year-old boy suffered head injuries when, he fell off his bicycle yesterday…

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Gave False Information On Accident

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 April 1953 · page 2

A car owner who said he thought the insurance company would not recognise a learner's permit,…

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Pelvis Injured By Falling Brick

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Friday 10 April 1953 · page 8

A labourer at the A.I. & S. Buffered injuries to the pelvis yesterday, when a brick fell front the top of a…

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Man's Head Injured

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1953 · page 1

A foreman rigger with Hornibrook McKenzie Clark Pty. Ltd., suffered severe lacerations to the…

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Valuable Doc Fatally Injured at Bulli Race Meeting

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1953 · page 14

Winner of many high grade district and Sydney races, Johnnie O'Brien was destroyed after receiving injuries when struck by the mechanical hare at last…

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Conveyor Belt Death Accidental: Coroner

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1953 · page 3

On the night of March 13, Maxwell Fedasz, 42, married, of Springhill Road, Coniston, was found in a section of the coke ovens plant at the steelworks with…

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Conveyor Belt Death Accidental: Coroner

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1953 · page 5

On the night of March 13, Maxwell Fedasz, 42, married, of Springhill Road, Coniston, was found in a section of the coke ovens plant at the steelworks with…

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Man Injured

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 14

A Balgownie workman sustained head injuries following an accident at a Port Kembla engineering works on Friday…

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Youth Injured In Mine

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 13 April 1953 · page 1

A seventeen-years-old mine worker was injured on Friday afternoon when crushed between two coal skips at the…

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Court Sequel To Collision

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 April 1953 · page 9

Gordon Anderson, of Edward Street, Wollongong, was fined £4/18/-with 12/- costs, on a…

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Worker's Foot Injured

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 4

A labourer for A. E. Young and Co. of Wingang suffered injuries to the right foot when a heavy…

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1 Killed, 20 Injured in Teheran Riots

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 3

TEHERAN, Wed.—Rioting broke out in Teheran yesterday as the pro-communist Tudeh Party staged…

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Loco Driver Dies After Accident

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1953 · page 1

A loco driver at Mount Keira Colliery died yesterday in Wollongong Hospital as the result of an…

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Accidental Death Finding After Mt. Ousley Mishap

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1953 · page 5

A finding of accidental death was returned by the Deputy Coroner, Mr. W. S. Musgrave, at the Wollongong Coroner's Court yesterday at the conclusion of the…

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