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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

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Cyclist Fatally Injured , SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 August 1940 · page 1

An hour after a car had figured in a collision, it was concerned in a tragic smash with a motor cycle at Liverpool to-day. The a motor cycle at Liverpool…

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Woman Injured at Rutherglen

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 3

Yesterday afternoon an aged woman named Mrs. F. Brasher, of Wodonga, who was returning from Kyabram by car, alighted in the main…

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Motor Accident on Maude Road

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 August 1940 · page 2

Four workmen on the Hay internment camp and the wife of one of them will long remember their trip to Hay. On Sunday a party started…

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Collision at Sea; Ships Reach Harbor Cape Town, August 14

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 5

The big liner, Ceramic, and the freighter, Testbank, collided in the South Atlantic during the week-end. Both were damaged but reached…

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Lad Crushed to Death in Car-tram Accident Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 4

One boy was killed and three others were injured when a motor car and on electric tram were involved in a collision at Coburg to-night…

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Child Accidentally Smothered Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 August 1940 · page 3

Evidence was given at the City Coroner Court to-day that a doctor’s child, aged six weeks, was smothered in a straw-filled pillow which had been…

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Two Die in Collision Cyclist Blamed by Coroner. MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 6

The careless action of a cyclist in riding his bicycle across the road in front of an oncoming car on the night of June 28 was the cause not only of…

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Accidents to Sawmill Employees

The Pastoral Times · Friday 16 August 1940 · page 1

Mr. Harold. James Sanderson, an employee of Mr. Reno Bau, wood miller, Wakool, had several fingers of his left hand badly lacerated yesterday when…

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More Fatal Accidents in Country Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 August 1940 · page 5

There was an increase in fatal accidents in country towns and rural areas from [?] for the first half of last year to 124 this year, said the Minister for…

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Wodonga Boy Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 August 1940 · page 2

Laurance Charlton, aged three, of South st., Wodonga, was admitted to the Albury hospital yesterday suffering from severe internal injuries that…

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Many Lives Lost in Accidents Carelessness of Motorists

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 August 1940 · page 4

Deaths in road accidents in this State have 'been increasing each week until at the end of July the position was nearly as…

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Nazis Soft Pedal Air Raids No Mass Attacks But Single Planes Are Active Several People Killed And Injured Germans Lose Five Machines; British Three Berlin Anti-Aircraft Guns in Action LONDON, August 20

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 August 1940 · page 1

There was a substantial lull in German air activity over Britain in during the last 24 hours, though many enemy planes, operating generally singly, were abroad. It was officially announced this morning that five German planes were…

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Review of Road Accidents

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 2

Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now we can…

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Fatal Fall From Shed Inquest’ Into George Doland’s Death “Accidental,” Is Verdict

Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 August 1940 · page 7

Falling from a shed on a Howlong road property on August 16, George Thomas Doland, aged 63, widower, of Guinea street, Albury, suffered head…

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Accident at Woy Woy Causes Strike; But Men Resume Later Sydney

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 August 1940 · page 8

Claiming that working conditions were unsafe, about 60 men employed at Woy Woy tunnel by the Railway Department went on strike, but later resumed…

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Fatal Gun Accident Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 August 1940 · page 1

While out shooting at Healesville yesterday. Anthony Wilson, aged 38. Wertheim st.. Burnley, was fatally injured when the gun he was carrying exploded…

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Review of Road Accidents the Value of Co-operation

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 27 August 1940 · page 4

Traffic accidents are up again! The Read Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I can…

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Review of Road Accidents

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 28 August 1940 · page 1

Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a mouth ago. Now I…

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Near to Drowning A.I.F. Men in Difficulties SYDNEY

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 29 August 1940 · page 5

Several A.I.F. sappers narrowly escaped drowning when caught in a strong current and undertow at Maroubra beach to-day…

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Review of Road Accidents

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 29 August 1940 · page 4

Traffic accidents are up again! The Road Safety Council had the distasteful task of making this announcement a month ago. Now I…

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