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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Drowning Fatality at Moroco West

The Pastoral Times · Friday 14 September 1951 · page 1

James Trent, aged 35 years, was drowned last Tuesday morning when he fell into the Bullatale Creek at Moroco…

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Footballer Drowned Surfing

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 September 1951 · page 15

BRISBANE, Sun.: Stephen Foster, a 19-year-old Toowoomba footballer, was drowned today at Southport in the season’s first…

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Toddler drowned in milk bucket

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 September 1951 · page 15

TAMWORTH, Sun.: Lorna Hazel Williams, aged 18 months, was drowned in a bucket containing about eight…

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Succession of Motor Accidents Cars Severely Damaged But No Persons Injured

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 1

A Bristol sports car and a Buick tourer were extensively damaged on Sunday, September 9, when they collided on the…

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Two fatal accidents on the Urana road

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 September 1951 · page 8

A 5-months-old child and a man were killed in two accidents an the Urana road on Friday and Saturday nights…

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£2000 for Injured Nurse

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 September 1951 · page 15

SYDNEY, Tues.: Only two doctors in the world could treat her for a chronic knee injury, a 22-year-old nurse claimed in…

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Buffalo Rd. Fatality Inquest is adjourned

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 September 1951 · page 9

BRIGHT, Wed.: Following the [?] accident on the Mt. Buffalo road on Tuesday evening, resulting in the death of Harry…

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18 injured in prison riot

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 6

TEHERAN, Thurs.: Eighteen warders were injured, two of them seriously, in a four-hour riot in Teheran prison yesterday…

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Little Girl's Death Accidental by Arsenical Poison

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 2

The Coroner, Mr. T. F. Cook, J.P., returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest yesterday touching the death of a…

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Fell Off Wood in Back of Lorry Accidental Death Finding in Smith Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 2

A VERDICT of accidental death was given yesterday by the Coroner (Mr. T. F. Cook, J.P.), after an inquiry into the death of George Thomas Smith, 15, who fell from a utility truck on the Hay-Deniliquin road on…

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Motor Accident Claim

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 21 September 1951 · page 2

In the District Court at Hay on Tuesday, judgment was, by consent, entered for the full amount claimed, £196/7/-, in the case in…

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Corowa woman riding cycle fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 September 1951 · page 1

Wife of the electrical engineer of the Corowa Municipal Council and Coreen Shire Council, MRS THELMA DOROTHY…

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Injured Worker Awarded £5262, Largest Sum Ever

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 September 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.: An award of £5362, the largest ever granted by the Workers’ Compensation Court, was made by…

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Eight hurt in freak accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 September 1951 · page 5

A parked vehicle on the Albury-Wodonga road on Saturday night was the Indirect cause of an accident resulting in…

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Woman Cyclist Fatally Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 25 September 1951 · page 1

An unfortunate and tragic accident occurred in Honour Avenue on Friday afternoon of last week, just about opposite Wood's blacksmith shop, when a woman cyclist was run down by a motor car and sustained injuries from…

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Former drowned when swept from hours in flood-swollen creek

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.: In Kangaroo Valley, about 15 miles north-west of Nowra, a dairy farmer swept from his horse today by flood waters and drowned…

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Straying Cows Cause Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 2

Straying cows were the cause of a hearse, owned by Wodonga funeral directors, McCullough and Dunstan, being- involved in an…

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Lavington Man’s the Accidental, Coroner a witness told Albury Coroner’s Court yesterday that the only thing which the thought couped a panel [?] to

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 7

Benjamin Herbert : Harmer of Laving ton, the driver of a panel van in which Ernest Colville Nolan, of…

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80 year old women in car accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 September 1951 · page 12

Two 80-year-old women were badly shocked when the car in which they were travelling overturned after a collision with…

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Albury Man Injured at Kiewa

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 2

A young Albury man, working in a tunnel on the West Kiewa section of the Victorian Electricity Commission’s…

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