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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Slight Damage in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 2

As John Robert Davies was driving his car along the Jindera road on Sunday last another car which was coming towards him…

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Howlong Woman Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 31 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues: Nurse Lillian Dunn, 22, of Howlong, near Albury, was seriously injured when she was struck…

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Culcairn Man's Death After Accident

The Observer · Friday 2 February 1951 · page 1

When his car struck a fence post near Culcairn on Wednesday, 17th January, Mr. Arthur Larter, aged 64, of Culcairn, was admitted to Albury…

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Items of News Wilson St. Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 February 1951 · page 2

When Gilbert P. Hoffman, of “Mountain View,” Walla, was backing his car from the southern kerb in Wilson st. yesterday,. he…

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Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 2

Tex Gehrig, 54, Hume St., was admitted to Albury Hospital last evening suffering from lacerations and shock. Police were told…

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23 People Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 3

PANAMA, Sun.: Twenty-three persons are missing, believed drowned, from a 45-ton launch which capsized In rough seas in…

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Jockey Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 5 February 1951 · page 15

ADELAIDE, Sun.: Jockey Peter Duller, 26, received a fractured skull in a. fall at the Morphetville races yesterday and died last night…

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Accident Near Rennie

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 1

On Saturday afternoon last, Mr. J. Jenkins, of Berrigan was riding his motor cycle about three miles on the Corowa side of Rennie. when…

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Shocking Motor Accident on Rutherglen Chiltern Road Car Overturns with 6 Passengers

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 6 February 1951 · page 1

The Rutherglen Chiltern road was the scene of a shocking motor accident on Sunday evening last, at about 10 o' clock. -- When travelling along the road about 8 miles from Rutherglen, the car skidded [?] loose material, left the road, [?] and hit a tree…

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81 Killed, 500 Inquired in U.S. Railroad Accident Train Wrecked When Bridge Collapses New York

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 8 February 1951 · page 3

At least 81 persons were killed and over 500 injured—130 of them being taken to hospital—after a speeding Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train was wrecked when a temporary overhead bridge suddenly collapsed near Woodbridge (New Jersey) last night…

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Cyclist Slightly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 2

Clifton Frederick Walden, 44, received slight abrasions early yesterday morning when the cycle he was riding in Wodonga Place…

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Two Apprentices Injured; One Seriously

Border Morning Mail · Friday 9 February 1951 · page 16

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Apprentice jockey J. Adams was critically injured and another apprentice less seriously injured in separate falls at Randwick…

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Panicked and Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, San.: Police believe a fisherman who was being rescued after a boat capsized on Lake Illawarra on Saturday…

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Elderly Man Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

GRAFTON, Sun.: An elderly man lost his life today when he attempted to swim ashore from a disabled launch off the mouth of…

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Drowned Whilst Fishing

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sunday: William Bryant, 63, of Welshpoot, was drowned at Tulam beach near Balnarring today when a flat-bottomed…

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Migrant Crashes Into the "Beetle"; Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 3

A Czechoslovakian migrant is seriously ill in Albury hospital following a collision between his motor cycle and the “Beetle”…

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Items of News Woman Injured in Car Crash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 February 1951 · page 2

When a sedan car overturned in a lane off Tallangatta rd. near Bonegilla yesterday, Mrs Joyce McHugh, of Dick st., Wodonga,…

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Soldier Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Stanley Weatherhead, 21, soldier of Puckapunyal, was drowned while swimming in the Goulburn River at…

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Seriously Injured When Thrown from Motor Cycle

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 13 February 1951 · page 1

James Hattwell, aged 18 years, of Deniliquin, was seriously injured last Sunday afternoon when he was thrown…

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Boy is Drowned Cray fishing DUBBO

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 February 1951 · page 14

An 8-years-old boy was drowned in fire feet of water in a dam near Dubbo this afternoon…

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