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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Three Men Hurt in Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 17

Three accidents involving admission to Albury Hospital occurred yesterday morning. Jim Carroll, Cemetery road,…

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Driver who drove on after accident sent to gaol for two years

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 December 1952 · page 18

SYDNEY, Fri.: A motorist who left a pedestrian bleeding to death in a pedestrian crossing was sentenced to two years’ gaol by Judge Stephen et Parramatta Quarter Sessions today…

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Boy Drowned in Milk Can

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 December 1952 · page 12

LAUNCESTON, Mon.: A two-year-old boy was drowned when he fell head first into a 10 gallon milk can with a foot of water in…

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32 People Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 December 1952 · page 20

ASCUNCION (Paraguay), Tues.: Thirty-two persons were drowned and 24 others survived when a crowded launch overturned and…

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Farmer’s Painful Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 December 1952 · page 2

Whilst making a fire break around his property, “May’s Hill,” Tungamah, Mr. Jack Saunders had occasion to stop the scarifier he…

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Unusual rail collision in South Australia

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Wed. : An unusual railway collision between a passenger train and a portion of a freight train occurred in a deep cutting at Warla Siding, near Callington, 40 miles from Adelaide, last night…

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Accidental death verdict at Holbrook inquest

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 17

A finding of accidental death was recorded by the Holbrook Coroner (Mr R. L. McClellan) on Charles Michael Lugg, 52, of…

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Denial on accident damages

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 December 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.: The NSW Premier, Mr Cahill, today denied there was any proposal to limit the amount of accident damages…

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Family injured when car overturns

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 December 1952 · page 15

Three people were injured when a car overturned on the Hume Highway at Table Top, 11½ miles from Albury,…

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Accident victims “took the risk,” High Court finds

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 December 1952 · page 9

SYDNEY, Fri.: Appeals by two motor accident victims were dismissed in the High Court today. Sidney Samuel Wilton Davis,…

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Fisherman drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 December 1952 · page 12

ADELAIDE, Sun.: Percival Edward Robinson, 38, fisherman, of Meningie, was found drowned in deep water near Stony Well…

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Young jockey fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 December 1952 · page 10

SYDNEY, Sun.: Jockey Max Eastcott, aged 22, died in Parramatta Hospital yesterday from injuries suffered when a horse…

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Former Hay Resident Injured

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A Grafton railway surveyor, A. Harry Stephen, who suffered two broken legs and face injuries in a…

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Car Accidents

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 December 1952 · page 1

About seven o'clock last Friday evening Mr. Pat O'Keeffe, carrier, Wahgunyah, was driving his motor lorry to…

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Final appeal for accident-free Xmas

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 December 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.: Police, transport and road safety officials today made final appeals to motorists and…

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Prevent holiday accidents to children

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 December 1952 · page 10

Health authorities are seriously concerned at the high rate of fatal accidents among children during the current school holidays. Many…

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Cyclist killed in collision

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 December 1952 · page 3

ADELAIDE, Thurs.: The only fatal accident on Christmas Eve was at Hectorville, an Adelaide suburb, where Guiseppe Romero,…

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Motor cyclist fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 December 1952 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: Leonard Webster, aged 19, of Howard st., Reservoir, died today as a result of injuries he received in a road…

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Injured man’s close call

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 December 1952 · page 3

A man was pinned toy a leg and arm underneath an overturned wrecked truck, with petrol dripping on his head for…

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Three hurt in Albury street accidents

Border Morning Mail · Friday 26 December 1952 · page 6

Three people were injured in road accidents in and around Albury during Christmas Eve and yesterday…

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