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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Tallangatta Court Yesterday Towong Shire President’s evidence in collision charge

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 March 1952 · page 8

At the Tallangatta Police Court, before Mr J. C. Bell, S.M., yesterday, Towong Shire President, Cr. R. Fraser Paton, Tallangatta, gave evidence in a motor car collision charge…

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“Drowned Whole Sleep Walking”

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 March 1952 · page 7

SYDNEY, Fri.: A returned soldier from World War I may have met his death from drowning while sleep-walking,…

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Dean Street Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 2

Two cars were damaged when they collided in Dean st. on Saturday night. Miss Noreen Mulqueeney, Wodonga, said she was…

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5 Die in Weekend Road Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Five people were killed in road accidents in NSW during the weekend. BRUCE WILSON, 58, married,…

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Accidental Death Verdict

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 March 1952 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the Coroner (Mr J. C. Bell) at Chiltern on Friday, when he inquired into the deaths…

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Baby Boy Drowned in Backyard

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 8

SYDNEY, Mon: A 16-months-old baby boy was drowned in a sump hole in the backyard of his home at Blacktown today…

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Relative of Mathoura Resident Killed in Highway Accident

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 25 March 1952 · page 2

A woman and her granddaughter were killed and a man critically injured when a car overturned as it swerved to avoid…

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£871 for Injured Jockey

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 March 1952 · page 20

ADELAIDE, Tues: Frederick Kelvin Bromley, 37, a former jockey, told the Adelaide. Local Court today that injuries received when he fell from…

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A. Podmore Has Injured Back

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 March 1952 · page 20

SYDNEY, Tues: Jockey A. Podmore probably will not ride for several weeks following the discovery of a fracture of a small bone in his back today…

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Double-decker Bus in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 1

WOLLONGONG, Wed.: A double-decker bus overturned after colliding with a mobile crane on the Springhill Road in…

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Motoring Accident

Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 9

Mr. Douglas Ryan, of Melbourne, and formerly proprietor of the Hotel Royal, Jerilderie was a passenger in a car that was involved…

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Scene of Chapter of Accidents

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 27 March 1952 · page 3

Debris has been cleared, but temporary white warning posts where the bridge side was ripped away are tangible…

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Howlong farmer’s death accidental, Coroner finds

Border Morning Mail · Friday 28 March 1952 · page 8

Acting Coroner at Wangaratta (Mr. W. Mills) returned a verdict of accidental death at an inquest into the death of Henry Francis Salmon, 33 farmer, of Howlong…

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Wangaratta News Wangaratta, Fri.: Painter Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 29 March 1952 · page 15

When section of a verandah he was painting at Whitfield, gave way, Geoffrey Vernon Bullied, 23, fell to the ground and suffered a…

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Three Vehicles in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 2

The drivers of three vehicles escaped injury when two cars and a semi-trailer collided opposite the wool scours, on the “mad mile”…

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Girl Is Believed Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police are dragging Lake Corangamite for the body of an 11-year-old girl who, it is feared, may have…

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Woman and three children drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Four people were drowned in N.S.W. today. Police believe a 70-year-old Sydney man was also drowned during the week-end…

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Injured by Dry Ice Explosion

Border Morning Mail · Monday 31 March 1952 · page 2

When a bottle of dry ice exploded into his face on Saturday Frederick Jacobs, son of Sen. Const F. Jacobs, Albury, suffered…

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Van Driver Fined—sequel to Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 10

The SM found that a collision between a panel van and motor .cycle near the Union Bridge on December 23 was due to…

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Accidents Will Claim 7000 Victims This Year by A Staff Reporter

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 1 April 1952 · page 8

When Thomas Mahoney, of Wagga, died on Sunday in Bowral Hospital from injuries received in a car smash near Berrima, he brought road death roll in NSW for 1952 to 173…

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