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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1935

1,311 stories in Murray's papers · page 52 of 66

Railway Employe Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 2

Mr. Ray Williams, a railway employe, stationed at Culcairn, fell from the Culcairn platform yesterday and sustained two broken fingers…

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Quarry Fatality Inquest Finding Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 5

When a quantity of stone fell from the fact of the Melbourne City Councils quarry at Clifton Hill on September 21 Robert Hamilton Black, 32…

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Telegrams Girl Drowned--lucky Escapes Sydney

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

Miss Joyce Laing, 13, domestic, was drowned last night when a car containing a number of passengers crashed through a fence at…

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Youthful Cyclist Killed Manslaughter Charge Follows Head-on Collision Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

A charge of manslaughter was preferred against a motorist by the Ashfield police to-night as a result of a head on collision between a motor…

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Fatally Injured Commercial Traveller Car Struck by Train Ballarat

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

Norman Hildyard , McDougall, 45, commercial traveller, of Middle Brighton, sustained fatal injuries today when his car was struck by the…

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Car’s Death Plunge Girl Trapped and Drowned Seven Others. Miraculously Escape SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

An eighteen-year-old girl, Miss Joyce Laing, domestic, of Pambula, was drowned and seven, others narrowly escaped the…

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Motor Fatalities. Accidents on South Coast and Hume Highway. SYDNEY, Monday Night

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 2

Miss Joyce Laing (18), a domestic, was drowned last night, when a car containing eight passengers, crashed through a fence at Merimula, South…

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Motor Notes. Causes of Accidents

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 4

One of the most exhaustive and informative reports dealing with traffic accidents ever made, is that recently issued by the British…

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Senator Guthrie’s Son Death Follows Accident Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 October 1935 · page 3

James Guthrie, son of Senator Guthrie, in Euroa Hospital to-day from injuries receives in a motor car accident near Avenel last Saturday…

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A Death a Day. Harvest of Accidents Motor Cars’ Toll. Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 4

A death a day is the tally of road accidents in Victoria. La[?] year 349 people were killed [?] accidents, and of these accidents…

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Road Fatalities. United Kingdom Figures. Causes of Accidents Analysed

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 2 October 1935 · page 4

One of the most exhaustive and informative reports dealing with traffic accidents ever made, is that recently issued by the British Minister for…

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Senator Guthrie's Son Dies Injured in Motor Accident

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 16

Mr. James Reynolds Guthrie, 28, only son of Senator and. Mrs. Guthrie, ,died at the Euroa (Vic.) Bush Nursing Hospital on Monday from injuries…

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Farm Hand Drowned Penrith

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 7

Neville Montague Long, 19, farm hand, formerly of Marrickville, was drowned in the Nepean River at Castlereagh last evening. His clothes…

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Truck Smashes Bridge Driver Injured

The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 1

WHEN crossing Maher’s bridge, 28 miles west of Ec[?]ca on the Murray Valley Highway on Tuesday afternoon a light truck driven by Mr…

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Car Plunges Into Lake Girl Passenger Drowned

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 16

An eighteen-year-old girl was drowned and seven other people had narrow escapes on Monday, when a touring car in which they were…

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Air Force Plane Wrecked Near We[?]ee Corowa Cadet Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 5

On Tuesday afternoon shortly after 4 p.m. a Royal Australian Air Force Mo[?] plane crashed on an emergency landing field near Werribee and two…

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Bob Pratt Injured May Not Play To-morrow Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 2

Bob Pratt, South Melbourne’s leading goal-kicker, was knocked down by a motor truck this afternoon in High street Armadale, and although…

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Toll of Accidents Victorian Premier Perturbed

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 16

"Recklessness by motorists seems to call for stricter supervision of the Motor-car Act, particularly in so far as it deals with speed," said the…

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News and Notes From the N.r.m.a. Level Crossing Accidents

The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 28

According to the British. Ministry of Transport's annual report on railway accidents in 1934, one person was killed or injured per 150 public…

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Explosion Kills Two Men Coroner Unable to Discover Cause Verdict of Accidental Deaths Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 October 1935 · page 2

The cause ,of an explosion in which two, men were killed at Nobel’s explosives factory, Deer park, on September 18, was not discovered when…

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