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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Items of News Accident Victim’s Condition “Slightly Improved”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 2

Condition of eight-year-old Michael Grace, of Brown’s Plains, who was seriously injured in a car accident on Albury-Wodonga…

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Bandiana level crossing smash: accidental death verdict

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 September 1951 · page 11

A car driver had attempted to swing around the back of a diesel rail motor travelling over a level crossing, a witness told…

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Two men drowned fishing

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 3

KEMPSEY, Fri.: Two of three men on a fishing trip were drowned when their flat-bottomed boat capsized on the…

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Road Accidents Are Mounting

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 September 1951 · page 7

Over the past five years, the number of road accidents in NSW had increased by more than 100 per cent. This has been revealed in a detailed account…

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Two die in road accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 October 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY. Sun.: Two people died and eight others were injured, one critically, in NSW road accidents over the weekend…

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Seven drowned in car

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 8

MONTREAL, Men: Three men and tear children were drowned yesterday while en their way to Mass, when their car plunged…

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Failed to stop after accident : fined £15

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 October 1951 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Fri; John Clifford Langren, of Moira ave, Oakleigh, motor mechanic, was fined £15 in the Oakleigh Court today…

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Four injured in Wagga accidents

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 5

WAGGA, Tues.: Gordon Jerrick, 27, of Lake Albert, was injured yesterday when his motor cycle and a utility track…

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Holbrook polio victim injured by racing car

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 7

A Holbrook polio victim suffered serious injuries when a runaway racing car hit him at Bathurst car races on Monday…

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Fatal Accident Near Finley

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 3 October 1951 · page 4

A fatal accident occurred on the [?] Finley road on Tuesday night of last week , when a motor cycle and a car collided head on William…

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Destroyer damaged in collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 8

LONDON, Wed.: Three ratings were killed, two officers and two ratings are missing, while one rating was injured in a collision in…

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Street Motoring Accidents Two Children Involved

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 October 1951 · page 2

Two accidents in which little children have ben involved occurred in Jerilderie Street during the past week or so…

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Council Employe Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 1

An Albury City Council employe, who was seriously injured when a pole struck him on the head near the Jindera Gap last…

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Only the Baby Was Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 October 1951 · page 1

A seven months-old-baby was seriously injured when these two vehicles collided at the intersection of Tallangatta and Kiewa roads, Bandiana, on Thursday night. The car at top was driven by Mr. George T. Lonergan, of [?] Creek, and it…

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Four killed, nine injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four people were killed and at least nine others were injured in weekend road accidents in NSW…

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Child Killed : Albury Street Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 October 1951 · page 1

A three-year-old Albury boy was killed instantly before the horrified eyes of dozens of children who were at the fair near Maples and passers-by, when he was run over by a loaded semi-trailer in Dean street, opposite…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 1

On Friday evening last shortly after 8 O'clock, about four miles on Corowa side of Springporst, Mr. Keith Martin, of…

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Man Loses Finger in Loader Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 9 October 1951 · page 2

When his hand was caught in the chain of a front end loader last week, Mr. W. Kidd had the first finger cut off at the…

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Verdict of Accidental Death at Coronial Inquiry

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 12 October 1951 · page 5

On Tuesday last,October 9, 1951, Mr. J. P. Leathy J.P., held an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs Theima Dorothy Grosch, which was the result of an accident on the Albury Road on September 21 last…

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Gerogery man drowned in swollen creek

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 October 1951 · page 1

The violent storm which swept Albury and district on Thursday caused the death of a 60-year-old Gerogery grazier. He is Mr Ernest Frederick Moloney, of…

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