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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Injured Soldier on the Mend

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 5 August 1952 · page 2

Albury District Hospital last night reported that William John Jones, soldier, who was injured in motor cycle smash near…

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Boy Drowned in Dinghy Capsize

Border Morning Mail · Monday 11 August 1952 · page 5

LAUNCESTON, Sun.: A boy of 15 was browned In the Tamar River yesterday, but the courage and prompt action of seamen on…

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Cause of Mid-ocean Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 6

WASHINGTON, Wed.: A naval court of inquiry announced yesterday that the sole cause of the disastrous mid-Atlantic, collision…

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Driving Your Car at Week-ends Is More Dangerous Than Any Other Time, Particularly on Saturday N.S.W. accidents increase

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 14 August 1952 · page 7

When you take the car out on Saturday you are driving on the worst “accident day” of the week, according to the Department of Road Transport in a statistical statement on road…

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Baby is drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.: A months-old baby boy was drowned in flood waters at Warren today…

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British, Australian diplomat's drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 8

HONG KONG, Sun.: The British Vice-Consul, Adrian Conway Evans, and Osmond Neville Smyth, an : Australian diplomat,…

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Items of News Two Utilities in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 2

Two utilities were involved in a collision in High st., Wodonga, about 12.20 O’ clock yesterday morning. One utility - was being…

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Woman, victim of rail accident, dies in hospital

Border Morning Mail · Monday 18 August 1952 · page 1

A woman who had her legs severed when she fell under the Albury Express at ; Glenrowan station on Friday night…

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Collision has court sequel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 4

A collision between a car and an auto-bike at the intersection of Wodonga Place and Dean street on April 8 had a sequel in…

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ALD. E. H. Muller Hurt Car Accident In Melbourne

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 19 August 1952 · page 1

Ald. E. H. Muller, of the Riverina Men’s Sore, with Mrs Muller and their children, Valerie, Peter and Jeffrey, went to…

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Workless man saves baby from drowning

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Tues: A 22 year old unemployed man rescued a baby from drowning in the Kororiot Creek this…

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Police see turf man on fatal accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Police today interviewed Mr Harry R. Way, secretary of the Victorian Amateur Turf Club…

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Items of News Corryong -Woman’s Accidental Coroner Death Finds

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 20 August 1952 · page 2

Corryong deputy coroner. (Mr A. F. Everard) yesterday found that Mrs Sheila Bryan Braham, aged 52 years, died from asphyxia,…

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Woman badly injured : hit by car

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 2

An unknown middle-aged woman, hit by a car in Dean st. last night at 6.45, was later admitted to Albury District Hospital in a…

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Albury man’s death accidental, Coroner finds

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 21 August 1952 · page 10

Albury Coroner (Mr A. S. Kendall) yesterday found no gross negligence on the part of a car driver whose vehicle was…

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Fatal Race Fall “Accidental”

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 5

BRISBANE, Thurs.: A steward said at an inquiry today concerning the death of apprentice jockey Dudley Murphy that the race…

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Street accident victim is identified

Border Morning Mail · Friday 22 August 1952 · page 10

Police yesterday identified a woman who was knocked down by a car at the corner of Townsend and Dean streets on…

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Crew quits after collision at sea

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 August 1952 · page 3

SAN FRANCISCO, Fri.: An American freighter crew started abandoning ship after a collision with a Swedish motor vessel seven…

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Bodies of 15 drowned soldiers recovered

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 23 August 1952 · page 2

SEOUL, Fri.: Searchers have found, the bodies of 15 of 30 American soldiers drowned on Monday in Korea,…

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Australians at drowned girls’s cremation

Border Morning Mail · Monday 25 August 1952 · page 3

LONDON, Sun.: Australian friends of two Victorian girls drowned in the Lyn Valley floods eight days ago were at Bristol…

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