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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

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Four dead in road accidents

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 8 August 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Four people were killed in rood accidents today. Three were killed and two…

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Albury Woman Gravely Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 16

A woman was taken to Albury Hospital in a serious condition by Albury ambulance after she had been struck by a taxi-cab…

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17 dead in Victoria’s black accident week-end

Border Morning Mail · Monday 10 August 1953 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun—A staggering total of 17 people died in accidents, including 10 in three separate level crossing smashes, during the 48 hour period between Friday morning and…

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Head on Collision

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 1

About four o’clock on Sunday afternoon a collision between two motor cars occurred on the Memorial Park bridge…

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Man fined following accident

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 11 August 1953 · page 5

An accident in Mate st. on July 4 resulted in the appearance of Thomas Humphries (21), contractor, David st., on a…

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Australian’s Death in U.k. Accidental

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 7

LONDON, Tues.: A verdict of accidental death was recorded yesterday on a 37-year-old Australian, Miss Muriel Grace White,…

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Figured in Street Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 12 August 1953 · page 20

This is the taxi which figured in an accident in Mate street on Sunday evening when Mrs. Rhonda Heaes, of…

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Car accidents costly to the Government I. O

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 12

SYDNEY, Thurs. : The Government Insurance office lost £451,179 on third party insurence during the year ended June30…

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In Holbrook Court Yesterday Shearer fined: sequel Id fatal accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 9

A Holbrook sheerer in whose vehicle a man was killed told Holbrook Court yesterday that he drove 15 feet blinded by the headlights of another car and then suddenly a stationary truck…

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Accidental Deaths Coroner’s finding on fatal crash after ball

Border Morning Mail · Friday 14 August 1953 · page 7

Death by accident was the finding of the deputy Coroner, Mr. M. H. Bunts, at Wodonga yesterday when he held an Inquest into the deaths of two young men in a road crash seven miles from Wodonga on the Kiewa…

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£3500 for injured boxer

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 15 August 1953 · page 18

MELBOURNE, Friday: A Supreme Court jury today assessed £3500 as compensation for an ankle injury which ended…

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Wodonga Player Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 August 1953 · page 8

Wodonga footballer, Tony Conway was injured in the match at Albury sportsground on Saturday and was taken to Albury…

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Collision causes long block-out

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 August 1953 · page 6

A collision on the Rutherglen road at the turn-off to Yarrawonga at 2 a.m. yesterday caused a blackout…

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Bus Overturns : No One Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 17 August 1953 · page 16

Three passengers and the driver of the Corryong-Tallangatta bus escaped injury when it overturned at Wabba, 11 miles from…

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Oil man hurt in car-truck collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 August 1953 · page 7

CANBERRA, Wed.: Mr Carl Persson, 63, of Canberra, manager for Vacuum Oil Co. Pty. Ltd. in south eastern N.S.W. sustained…

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Child’s Nasty Accident at Telford

Border Morning Mail · Friday 21 August 1953 · page 2

Whilst placing a parcel near a door at his home at Telford Ron. the 10-year-old son of Mr and Mrs J. Vallance, hit his eye on the…

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Albury Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 August 1953 · page 2

An Albury man was admitted to Albury Hospital early yesterday morning, after his car had overturned six miles from…

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Two Hurt in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 2

Two people were injured when a motor cycle and a motor bus collided on the Hume Highway, Wangaratta late Saturday…

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Man Killed in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 10

SYDNEY, Sun.: A man was killed in a collision between two cars at Bankstown tonight. The man was Harold John…

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Spine May Be Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 August 1953 · page 2

Passenger and driver of a utility which skidded and overturned while travelling east in Union rd.. Lavington, at 11.10 p.m. Saturday,…

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