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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Condition of Injured Family

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 2

The five members of the Sydney family injured when their car crashed into a creek bed near Mullengandra on Saturday…

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Injured Player Ross Now “Satisfactory”

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 1

Near the close of the final quarter of the football game at Berrigan on Saturday, Deniliquin forward lan (‘Barney’)…

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Man Fined £11 : Accident Sequel

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 18 May 1954 · page 10

Fines and costs totalling £11 were imposed on a motorist who drove with faulty headlights and failed to give way to a…

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Corowa Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 May 1954 · page 2

A 65-year-old Corowa truck loader fell 12 feet from a flour loaded truck on to the railway line at Wahgunyah yesterday. He is…

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Accident Victim Dies

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 19 May 1954 · page 2

Mrs. Elizabeth Cowan, aged 63 one of the five members of a Sydney family injured in a car accident at Mullengandra on…

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Items of news Young Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 20 May 1954 · page 2

A 17-year-old youth, from Osley, was thrown from his cycle in a collision with, a motor car on the Whitfield road, two miles…

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Man Drowned in Dam

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 21 May 1954 · page 3

The body of Joseph Fackrell, 67, was found floating in the brick kiln dam in Cooper's paddock at Rutherglen on…

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Jockey alleges attempt to involve him in accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 22 May 1954 · page 2

SYDNEY, Fri.: Western Districts jockey Lance Smith the A.J.C. Committee today another jockey had tried to push him into the fence during the running of the Orange Cup…

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Two accidents at Holbrook

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 2

A car overturned and was badly damaged after the driver had swerved to avoid a dog, in one of two accidents reported…

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Six die in N.S.W. road accidents

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY, Sun. : Six people have been killed in road accidents at the weekend and several are in hospital in a serious…

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11 die in accidents in Victoria at weekend

Border Morning Mail · Monday 24 May 1954 · page 16

MELBOURNE, Sun.: At least 11 people—three of them children—died in accidents in Victoria over the week-end. The toll was the State’s highest this year. Two of the children, a brother and sister, died from burns in a petrol…

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Player Injured in Deniuquin

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 4

Near the close of the final quarter of the football game at Berrigan on Saturday, Deniliquin forward Ian ("Barney") Ross…

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Horseman Injured by Low Limb

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 2

Mr. Geo. Till, of Toganmain, when riding in timbered country yesterday, was run by his horse under a low bough. He…

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£3000 for woman injured by bullock at show

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 12

BRISBANE, Mon.: A Supreme Court jury today awarded £3000 to Miss Doris Lena Perry who was injured when a…

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“Accident record is good”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 25 May 1954 · page 9

Despite Saturday’s mishap, when a man was struck by a diesel engine, the Albury railway yard’s accident record was very good,…

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Eye Injured by Cracker

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 2

Albury Hospital doctors are expected to operate this morning to try to save the sight of a Dutch woman’s right eye, injured by a…

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FOOTBALL Rutherglen player injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 19

First-year Rutherglen follower Brian Lucas received hospital treatment for a bruised liver after the Wodonga-Rutherglen…

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Bing Crosby’s Son Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 3

SAN JOSE (California). Tuesday Gary Crosby, 20. son of crooner Bing Crosby, was injured early today and a Mexican, Felix…

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Policeman suggests that injured man was exaggerating his pain

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tues.: David Edward Studley-Ruxton had made noises “as though he was in great pain” during a medical examination on February 26, but had become perfectly quiet after the examining doctor left, a police constable said today…

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Accidental Death Verdict

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 26 May 1954 · page 2

A finding of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. J.P. Leahy, JP) at an inquest in Corowa on Monday on Roy…

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