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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

654 stories in Murray's papers · page 17 of 33

Air Officer Injured When Hit by Car Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 1

Pilot Officer Clifford Johnstone, aged 25, of the Air Force station at Cootamundra, was injured when he was knocked down by a car near…

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Born in Car Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 23 May 1940 · page 2

A baby boy was born in an overturned car after a road accident four miles from Moree. recently. The mother, Mrs. G. Kane, of…

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Rode on Unaware That He Was Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 10

Unaware that lie was injured when his cycle struck a lorry in Canterbury to-day. Colin Halliday. aged 15 of Bankstown. rode for nearly a mile…

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Accident Victims Improve

The Pastoral Times · Friday 24 May 1940 · page 1

Mr. Hector King, contractor for the Water Commission in the Berriquin irrigation district, who sustained very severe injuries to the head and…

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Big Increase in Accidents

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 25 May 1940 · page 2

Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during the last two weeks. They were the careless use of…

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Man and Woman Killed; Several Others Injured Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 May 1940 · page 6

Several persons were killed in motor accidents during the week-end. When the motor cycle he was driving collided with a motor car outside…

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Injured Ankle

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 1

Mi. William A. Stevens, an employee at Willurah Station, was admitted to Deniliquin Hospital to-day suffering a painful injury to his left ankle, as a…

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Motor Cycle Fatality SYDNEY--Monday

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 3

Miss Dulcle Harper, aged 26, met her death this morning when a motor cycle crashed into a telegraph pole on the Hame Highway near Camden. A…

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Sensational Motor Accident Driver's Narrow Escape Lorry Crosses Bridge Without Driver

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 2

On Saturday evening, shortly before 6 o'clock, a two-ton Ford lorry, owned and driven by Mr. Ron Isaac, got out of control on the road near the…

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Road Accidents Menace to War Effort Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 May 1940 · page 4

Road accidents on the present scale were a menace to Australia’s war effort. said the Minister for Transport (Mr. Bruxner) to-day. He pointed…

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Finley Shooting Accident. Boy Wounded in Side

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 4

Kenneth Graham [?] of Finley was would in the [?] side when a rifle [?] a companion [?]…

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Big Increase in Accidents. (Issued by the Road Safety of New South We[?] )

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 29 May 1940 · page 4

Two factors contribute substantially towards increasing the [?] accident figures of the State during the last two week. They were [?]…

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Big Increase in Accidents

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 30 May 1940 · page 4

Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during the last two weeks. They…

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Springhurst Resident Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 4

Corowa ambulance took Harold Montgomery aged 25. of Springhurst to Rutherglen Bush Nursing Hospital last night in a serious condition The…

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Injured by Pea Rifle Bullet

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 5

On Monday Keith Edwards, aged 14 years, of Bright, was severely injured by a pea-rifle bullet. He was with another lad, who was endeavouring…

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Big Increase in Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 4

Two factors contributed substantially towards increasing the road accident figures of the State during the last two weeks. They…

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Jockey Injured SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 8

When Aussie Bee crashed into a schooling hurdle at Randwick this morning, his rider, H. Paton, narrowly escaped serious injury. Aussie Bee…

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Road Accidents Again Serious

Riverina Recorder · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 2

At midnight oh Tuesday the Road Safety Council had been advised of 37 deaths in road accidents during May. More than three-fourths of the…

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Two Jockeys Injured in Falls Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 7

Two riders were injured when their fell in the steeplechase at Flemington this afternoon, but their condition was stated to-night to be…

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Shooting Fatality Follows Car Crash Young Man Dead Melbourne, Sunday

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 7

When their motor, car skidded, Into trees and overturned near Beech Forest, last night, George Brooks, aged 31 years, of Mason street,…

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