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Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown) · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

38 stories in Macarthur (Camden & Campbelltown)'s papers · page 1 of 2

Camden Police Found Celebrations Quiet Very Few Accidents Or Drunks

Camden News · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 4

This Christmas and New Year holiday period was one of the quietest that Camden police have experienced…

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Man Accidentally Shot

Campbelltown Ingleburn News · Tuesday 2 February 1954 · page 5

During the afternoon of Anniversary Day (Jan. 26), Mr. Jim Skrevanos, age 27, of Commonwealth Street, Surry…

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Car and Truck Collide at Appin Elderly Woman Fatally Injured

Camden News · Thursday 4 February 1954 · page 4

Mrs. Florence Ethel Hart, aged 70, of Bourke Street, Parramatta North, died in the Camden District…

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Transport of Accident Victims

Camden News · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 3

Superintendent J. Roberts, of Liverpool District Ambulance, is alarmed at the number of people who are…

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Camden Police Kept Busy 16 Road Accidents During May

Camden News · Thursday 3 June 1954 · page 9

In addition to the "hundred and one" other matters to which they have to attend police at the local…

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Accidents Caused by Stock Straying

Campbelltown Ingleburn News · Tuesday 8 June 1954 · page 1

The Road Safety Council of New South Wales has drawn the Department of Local Government’s…

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Shocking Road Accident Near Picton Four People Killed - Three Injured

Camden News · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 4

In a shocking road accident on the Hume Highway, near Tahmoor on Sunday night, four people were killed and three others were seriously injured…

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Boy Drowned in Well Coroner's Inquest Held

Camden News · Thursday 10 June 1954 · page 8

At the Coroner's Court, held in the Court House, Camden, on 28th May, an inquest was held into the…

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Condition of Injured Girl Improves

The Picton Post · Wednesday 16 June 1954 · page 5

The condition of Beverley Christine Skerry, a 5 year old girl admitted to Camden District Hospital after…

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Driver Dozed Collision With Truck

Camden News · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 2

The driver of a motor lorry who came to Camden Police Station to report an accident, told police that he had dozed…

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Tragic Motor Cycle Accident R.A.N. Man Killed

Camden News · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 8

The death occurred last Friday night, as the result of an accident, of L.S.M. Richard George Malcolm,…

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Two Girls Injured in Bicycle Accident

The Picton Post · Wednesday 30 June 1954 · page 6

Two girls suffered serious injuries when the bicycle they were riding got out of control and crashed into…

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Foot Amputated After Accident

Campbelltown Ingleburn News · Tuesday 13 July 1954 · page 4

When a disused electric light pole which was being removed from the ground in Ingleburn got out of…

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Man Fatally Injured in Car Crash

The Picton Post · Wednesday 14 July 1954 · page 1

A man died after being admitted to hospital and three other persons were injured, one seriously, as the result of two cars crashing heavily into the rear of a semi-trailer in successive accidents on the Hume…

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Woman Suffers Serious Injury in Car Collision

The Picton Post · Wednesday 21 July 1954 · page 5

A woman and her two-year-old daughter were injured and taken to hospital alter the car in which they were travelling crashed into the rear of a stationery motor lorry near Brookside, about one mile north…

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Horse Injured Mysteriously Family Devotion To Pet

Camden News · Thursday 29 July 1954 · page 4

Residents of Elizabeth Street, Camden, watched with keen interest during the week the valiant efforts…

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Week-end Accidents

Campbelltown Ingleburn News · Tuesday 3 August 1954 · page 3

A number of motor accidents occurred in the district during last week-end but no one was seriously injured…

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Youth Shot in Week-end Accident

Camden News · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

A University student was accidentally shot between the toes while on a hike in the Burragorang Valley last…

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Purely an Accident

Camden News · Thursday 5 August 1954 · page 2

There's a story that a football match once took place between a team of elephants and a team of ants…

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Two Cyclists Injured in Road Race

Camden News · Thursday 12 August 1954 · page 4

On Saturday last at Liverpool the controlling body of amatuer cycling in New South Wales held the 1954…

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