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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Auburn River Injured in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 20

BRISBANE; Fri: Brilliant Newcastle sprinter Auburn River has been injured in a track collision at Doomben and will not be able to race for…

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Steep rise in fatal motor cycle accidents

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 30 June 1951 · page 18

SYDNEY, Fri.: Since 1945 casualties to motor cyclists have increased by 500 per cent. the secretary of the Road Safety…

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Cars in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 July 1951 · page 2

When the car she was driving collided with another car at the Young and Perry sts. intersection about 5 p.m. yesterday, Elsie…

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Breasley hurt in accident

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 July 1951 · page 11

LONDON, Wed: Australian Jockey A. Breasley was hurt in a car accident and won’t ride at Brighton today. He received a cut under one eye…

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Yacht crewman drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Sunday: A young crew member of the sloop Jasnar, was lost overboard early this morning while…

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12 people injured in spectacular port fire

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 9

NEWARK (New Jersey), Sun.: At least 12 persons were injured and three million dollars worth of damage done in a spectacular fire which turned for fire hours in the Newark port area yesterday…

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Boy Killed in Street Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 9 July 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Sun: A boy was killed and five people were injured, one critically and two seriously in week-end accidents in Sydney…

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Saved boy where son was drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 2

ADELAIDE, Monday: A man, whose 2½-year-old son was drowned in Brown Hill Creek at Forestville four years ago,…

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Injured men’s roadside ordeal

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 10

DARWIN, Mon.: Two Department of works employes, William Bell, 54, and Frederick Martin, [?] were both badly injured on Friday…

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RUGBY Injured Frenchman fit for

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 16

BRISBANE, Mon: French Rugby League forwards Edouard Ponsinct and Gaston Calixte, will be fit for the match against NSW at the…

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Riverina Road Accident Statistics

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 10 July 1951 · page 4

At yesterday’s meeting of the Central Murray Regional Committee meeting held in the Conargo Shire Chambers, a…

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50 drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 11 July 1951 · page 15

PUEBLA (Mexico), Tues.: At least 50 passengers were drowned when a crowded bus overturned as it tried to ford the…

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Trucks Damaged in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 12 July 1951 · page 2

Two trucks were damaged, one badly, in a collision on the Wodonga-Albury rd. yesterday afternoon. Drivers of the trucks were:…

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Corowa Coach Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 19

Corowa’s coach, Tommy Lahiff, is likely to be out of the game for some time following an injury to the jaw…

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Three die in road accidents MELBOURNE

Border Morning Mail · Monday 16 July 1951 · page 22

Leslie James Priddle, 45, storeman, employed at the Ford motor works in Wellington St., Geelong West,…

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Drowned in Canal

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 2

The body of Mr. Ernest James Ritchie was found on the afternoon of Friday, 6th July by a W. C. and I. C. channel gang. The…

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Crown alleges youth killed little boy by drowning him

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 17 July 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A youth alleged by the Crown to have throw a four-year-old boy into the Maribyrnong River on April 16 after rendering him unconscious pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder in the Criminal…

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Wharfies idle following accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 18 July 1951 · page 18

BRISBANE, Tues: At Bowen, wharf labourers ceased work today for 24 hours following the accidental death of a member of the…

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Two women killed in collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

ARMIDALE, Wed.: Two women were killed in a collision between a semi-trailer and a sports car at an intersection today…

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Nowra crash : accident finding by Coroner

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 19 July 1951 · page 1

NOWRA, Wed.: Nowra Coroner, Mr. U. K. Walsh, returned a finding of accidental death at the inquest today on a tourist bus driver and five passengers who were killed when the bus crashed into a loaded timber jinker…

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