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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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326 Die in U.s. Air Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 18

WASHINGTON, Fri.: The United States Aeronautics Board reported today that 326 persons were killed and one seriously hurt in 114 air…

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Two Accidents in 20 Minutes

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 24 May 1952 · page 2

Two accidents occurred in Young st. yesterday afternoon within 20 minutes of each other. First resulted in slight damage to…

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Three are drowned at week-end

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Three persons were drowned in NSW during the weekend. They were s fisherman at Shell…

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Hit by taxi : railwayman badly injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 26 May 1952 · page 4

A railway employe was seriously injured when he was struck by a taxi-cab at the corner of Young and Wilson sts…

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Taxi Passenger Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 2

A 35-year-old man was thrown to the roadway in Smollett street when a panel van and the taxi he hired collided late yesterday…

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Seaman killed in tanker barge collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 13

NEW FORK, Mon.: An oil tanker and an oil barge collided and caught fire in the Delaware River last night…

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Missing woman believed drowned in treacherous swamp

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 27 May 1952 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Mon.: Hopes of finding alive 70-year-old Miss Margaret Clement of Tullaree Station (“The Lady of the Swamp”) faded when searchers had to abandon their hunt at dusk today without finding any…

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10 men may be dead in river collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 28 May 1952 · page 14

WILMINGTON (Delaware), Tues.: The third tanker collision in 1 days in the port of Philadelphia yesterday sent the…

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£4220 for young man who said his boxing hopes were blasted by accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 30 May 1952 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A Supreme Court jury today awarded £4220 damages to a young motor cyclist who said that the injuries he received in a road accident in October, 1949, ended his hopes of becoming Victorian…

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Three died in road accidents in Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 31 May 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Three people were killed and 30 injured—some seriously—in road accidents in the metropolitan…

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Two Men Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 15

BRISBANE, Sun.: Two men are believed drowned in a fishing tragedy at Moreton Bay during the weekend…

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Player dies after collision on field

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Sun.: A 17-year-old footballer collapsed and died after colliding with another player…

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Two drowned in car swept away by floods

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 14

ADELAIDE. Sun.: The bodies of two people who were drowned when their motor car was swept away by flood water on the main…

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Two killed in rood accidents in Melbourne

Border Morning Mail · Monday 2 June 1952 · page 15

MELBOURNE, Sunday: Two people, were killed in road accidents during the week-end. RICHARD JOHN ANDERSON,…

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Long Trip For Ambulance Woman Seriously Injured in Fall

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 3 June 1952 · page 1

ON Roads that were virtual quagmires over long stretches and in heavy rain that reduced visibility to a few feet the Hay District Ambulance made a hazardous trip of more than 200 miles on Sunday to bring to Hay…

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£9000 for Injured Woman

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 4 June 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Miss Ursla May Eitzen, of Reynella, South Australia, former Matron of Wentworth Hospital (S.A.),…

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Accidental Death Verdict in bus-motor cycle collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 5

Albury Coroner (Mr. A. J. Kendall) returned a verdict of accidental death at the inquest yesterday into the death of Raymond Francis Middleton, 21, single, of Mt. Beauty (Vic.) , who died from the effects of injuries…

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Speeding and liquor Cause Many Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 5 June 1952 · page 13

Speeding and liquor were responsible for the majority of accidents in the Albury district, Police Inspector W. R. McGuiness said last night. He was commenting on a…

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Girl’s death fall accidental

Border Morning Mail · Friday 6 June 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Lorraine Probert, 16, of Ivy st. Prahran had died accidentally when she fell through a glass roof trying…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 7 June 1952 · page 2

A motor-cyclist was admitted to Albury Hospital following a fall from his cycle yesterday afternoon. He was C. McGrath, of 300…

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