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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Road Accidents Cause Heavy Loss

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 February 1951 · page 14

Roads accidents mean an economical loss to Australia of £18M. a year, Mr. M. W. Plate, field officer for the N.S.W. Road Safety…

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Motorist Had Near Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 16 February 1951 · page 2

An Albury motorist had an unnerving experience when travelling the Yackandandah-Osborne’s Flat road yesterday…

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Two Children Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 February 1951 · page 2

Albury ambulance was yesterday called to attend two children who suffered fractured limits. The first was Martin Roach, 14 of Smith st…

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Ambulance Officer Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 February 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY Sun.: A young St. John’s ambulance officer, Leslie Millanpa, 20, of 11 Johns st., Waterloo, was drowned in the…

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Motor Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 20 February 1951 · page 3

A motor accident occurred in Sanger Street, Corowa about 8 o'clock on Saturday night in front of the Ambulance Station, and although…

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Items of News Albury Hotel-keeper Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 February 1951 · page 2

Mr J. J. McCarthy, licencee of the Court House Hotel Kiewa st., was seriously injured last Saturday when the car which he was…

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Bahadur injured, will not race again

Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Thurs: Outstanding 2-year-old Bahadur broke the sesamoid bone in his oft foreleg at Flemington today and will not race…

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Child seriously injured by kick in stomach, doctor tells court

Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 3

PENRITH, Thurs.: “An hysterical loss of power of her legs” had developed in a six-year-old girl, a doctor told the Penrith court today. [?] police alleged she had…

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Migrant figured in two accidents

Border Morning Mail · Friday 23 February 1951 · page 9

A New Australian motor cyclist was involved in an accident with a car while he was travelling to Wodonga police station to report…

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Walla Youth’s Death in Diving Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 February 1951 · page 3

WAGGA, Fri.: After diving on to a submerged log in the Tarcutta Creek at Borambola reserve, about 17 miles from…

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Woman Killed in Truck-transport Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun: Miss Merle Peers 28, of Herriot st Deniliquin was killed instantly when the cabin of the truck in which…

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Final News Round-up Henty Youth Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 11

WAGGA, Sun: A 17-year-old Henty youth; Robert Henry Heathcote, was drowned in the Murrumbidgee River at…

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Two injured in “Mad Mile” crash

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 February 1951 · page 6

Two young, men were injured and the driver was unhurt when the car (above) careered off the Hume Highway along the…

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Deniliquin Girl in Road Fatality

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 27 February 1951 · page 2

Merle Pears, 28, of Herriot St., Deniliquin, was killed early on Saturday when a truck in which she was a passenger collided with a transport on the…

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Young Woman Killed In Car Accident Miss Merle Peers

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 27 February 1951 · page 1

When a truck conveying two people to Melbourne last Saturday came into collision with the rear of a read…

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Boy Cyclists Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 February 1951 · page 2

When they were riding a bicycle down Guinea st, shortly after 7 p.m. yesterday, two children, Ivars Alkfnis and…

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Two Killed, Three Hurt in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 1 March 1951 · page 8

SYDNEY, Wed.: Two men were Killed instantly and three people were injured tonight when two cars collided on the Windsor rd.,…

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Henty Youth Drowned In River Picnic Fatality Body Recovered on

The Observer · Friday 2 March 1951 · page 1

A deep feeling of gloom was felt throughout Henty and district on Sunday afternoon when the tragic news became known that Robert Henry Heathcote, 17-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Bob Heathcote, wellknown local residents, had lost his life in a drowning fatality in the…

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Promising Apprentice Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 24

SYDNEY, Fri: Promising apprentice George Frankland suffered slight concussion in a fall at Randwick today. He was not seriously hurt, but a…

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Two Hurt in Car Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 3 March 1951 · page 9

When his car overturned on Old Sydney rd last night, Leslie Norman Schaefer 24, Alexandra st, suffered a severe laceration to the…

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