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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1950

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Father of 7 Children Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 1

A father of seven children was drowned In the Murray River on Friday when the truck he was driving failed to…

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Grey Boots Slightly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 15

BRISBANE, Mon: Grey Boots bolted and slightly injured himself while working at Doomben today…

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Car in Amazing Accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 June 1950 · page 15

Hundreds of motorists stopped to look at the amazing spectacle of a late model car suspended by a railing through its bonnet on Hume Highway, south of Benalla. The car, driven by Mr Ernest Walsh,…

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Murray River Drowning

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 1

Volunteers towing the truck in which Jeremiah Thomas Gannon, farmer, of Greg Greg, was trapped and…

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No One Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 June 1950 · page 2

No one was injured when two cars collided at the intersection of Macauley and Guinea sts. at 11.15 a.m. yesterday. William…

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Items of News Taxi, Lorry Collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 June 1950 · page 2

No one was injured when a car and lorry collided in Old Sydney Road yesterday afternoon. Alwyn V. Chapman, of Noreuil Park, was…

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’Plane Accident Victim in Serious Condition

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 July 1950 · page 4

PERTH, Fri.: Following an uncomfortable night in Royal Perth Hospital, Mr. Edgar Forwood, of Henley Beach, South Australia,…

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Girl Killed; Parents Injured in Car Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Brenda Elizabeth Keating, 6, Cranbrook Rd., Caulfield, was killed and her parents injured in a car collision…

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Man Fatally Injured in Mine

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 July 1950 · page 5

WOLLONGONG. Sun.: Jean Meuton 35, assistant manager of Wongawilli colliery, was fatally injured in Mt. Nebo colliery…

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Injured Roughrider “On Mend”

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 1

Ray Bark, the well-known Finley roughrider who broke a bone in Ms leg when he fell at the recent Deniliquin rodeo, is…

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Two Die in Car-lorry Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 15

SYDNEY, Mon. : Two persons died and another was critically injured following a collision between a car and…

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In Albury Police Court Yesterday Street Light Was Out at Time of Accident, Albury Court Told

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 July 1950 · page 12

Cause of a collision on the Hume Highway on the evening of February 24 lost, when a Lavington resident was fatally injured, was attributed by Sydney barrister, Mr H. E. E. Reimer, in…

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Taxi Badly Damaged in a Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 14

A taxi which collided with a utility truck at the intersection of Dean and David. sts. at 6.28 p.m. yesterday was so…

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“Broke Into Queen’s Home by Accident”

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 5 July 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Tues.: Gerald O’Brien, 26, gardener, chose Queen Mary’s home to break into “by accident,” the…

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People Drowned, Homes Washed Away

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 3

PITTSBURGH, Thurs.: At least four people have been drowned and scores of homes have been washed away in…

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Unusual Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

The most unusual motoring accident of the month happened to a Goodyear Tyre Co. salesman in Victoria…

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Holiday Fatal Accidents Reach New Peak

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

NEW YORK, Thurs.: Accident deaths in the United States reached a record of 783 during the four-day Independence Day…

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Airport Death Accidental

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 July 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY, Thurs: The City Coroner returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest on a radio technican killed at Mascot…

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Sisters’ Bus Deaths Accidental

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 July 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Fri.: The driver or conductor of a bus from which two married sisters fell to their deaths was not criminally…

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‘‘Ambulance Plane for Injured Englishmen

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 July 1950 · page 14

BRISBANE, Sun.: An ‘‘ambulance’’ plane will leave Eagle Farm at 2.30 p.m. tomorrow to take nine injured British Rugby…

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