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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

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Injured Man’s Ordeal

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Police believe a 45-years-old man lay semiconscious under a bridge at Flemington for three days with a…

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Eight dead in triple train collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 11

MADRID, Sun.: A triple train collision yesterday killed eight people, while more than 100 were stated to have been injured, 22…

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Man accidentally shot

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 July 1953 · page 5

MOREE, Sun.: Guy Robert Hovenden, 59, for many years health inspector of Moree Municipal Council,, was accidentally…

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Trailer Turned Over After Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 July 1953 · page 8

This trailer turned over when it was involved in a collision with a car at the intersection of Dean and David streets yesterday morning. Driver of the car was Ernest Webster, Wantlgong street, North Albury, and James G. Leeton-Stewart, of Ultima, was the driver of the vehicle drawing the trailer. Neither vehicle was badly damaged…

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Accidental Death

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 1 August 1953 · page 2

Accidental , death was the finding at Yarrawonga yesterday by the acting Coroner, Mr. D. Forbes, following the inquest on…

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Cae, Utility in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 2

A car and a station utility featured in a collision in Townsend st., at 9.45 p.m., on Saturday. Neither was damaged extensively…

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Trainer Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 11

SYDNEY, Sunday: A horse trainer was seriously injured when he was thrown from a horse in a paddock at Canterbury today…

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Wangaratta player injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 8

Well known Wangaratta footballer, Lou Cesa. 21, was injured when he attempted to save a friend from falling from the back…

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Accident “Right at Doorstep”

Border Morning Mail · Monday 3 August 1953 · page 2

On Saturday afternoon, s utility truck and a car collided '“outside the door“ of the Wodonga police station, but no damage was…

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Collision Near Soldiers' Memorial

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

A cyclist is said to have distracted the attention of the drivers of two vehicles near the Soldiers' Memorial last Saturday…

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Road Worker Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 3

Main Roads Department worker Thomas C. Grant, East Lavington, who was painting a yellow line on the centre of the roadway, was…

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Truck Driver Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 2

When he alighted from a motor truck on the weighbridge at the Albury railway goods yards at 4.40 p.m. yesterday. a man slipped and…

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Footballer’s Car In Collision

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 1

[?] occurred on the [?] road, five miles from Deniliquin late on Saturday [?] Football Ronald Morris…

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Items of news Injured Playing Football

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 2

Shortly before school resumed after the luncheon recess at 1.25 p.m. yesterday an Albury High School pupil was injured during…

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£15,000 for Boy Victim of Car Accident Deaf, blind and nearly paralysed

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 4 August 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Mon.: A three-year-old boy, blinded, deafened and partly paralysed in a car smash, was awarded £15,000 damages in the Supreme Court today…

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Three Car Accidents

The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 5 August 1953 · page 6

After a period of freedom from road accidents, three were reported 10 the Finley police within twenty-four hours…

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Gas deaths accidental—Coroner

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 6 August 1953 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Wed. : The City Coroner (Mr Burke) recorded a finding of accidental death at an inquest today on two elderly…

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Local and General Separator Accident

The Observer · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 2

Miss Trilby Kotzur, of Alma Park, sustained cuts and abrasions to the face, when a separator she was using flew…

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Former Wangaratta Footballer Awarded £6200 DAMAGES Lost leg in road accident: claimed £15,000

Border Morning Mail · Friday 7 August 1953 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Thurs.: A former Wangaratta footballer was awarded £6200 damages in the Supreme Court today for loss of his right leg…

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Boy Injured in Cycle-car Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 August 1953 · page 2

Leslie Gollan, 14, of Bridge st., South Albury, suffered a cut on the right leg when his bicycle came into collision with the rear of a…

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