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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

512 stories in Murray's papers · page 13 of 26

Two Migrants Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.: Two Italian workmen were flung hundreds of feet from a high tension tower at Toongabbie today…

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Car Overturns; Driver Injured

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 12 June 1954 · page 2

Thomas Moore, 592 Kiewa street, received a broken right collarbone when the car he was driving skidded and overturned half a…

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Three Injured in Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 3

Word was received in Corowa yesterday to the effect that an accident had occurred on the Hume Highway early yesterday…

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Three Corowa Men Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Mon. : Three men. all of Corowa, were seriously injured early today when their truck ran off the Hume…

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Car Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 2

Mr. Eric Emerson, of Blackburn, Victoria, was returning home at the week-end following the funeral of his late father,…

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[?]Accident Victim Improving

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 15 June 1954 · page 1

Condition of Robin Oddy who was injured in an [?] last week, continues to improve a relative said today…

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This highway has grim fatality record

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 13

LITHGOW, Wed.: During the last three years more people had been killed on the Great Western Highway, between Lithgow…

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Condition of Injured Corowa Men One “seriously ill,” other “satisfactory”

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 17 June 1954 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Wed,: Russell Wales, of Reasling st.. Corona, was on the “seriously ill” list at Royal Melbourne Hospital…

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Toohey Injured on Track

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 15

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Leading apprentice jocket W. Toohey will not be able to ride for at least six weeks. Toohey suffered a broken…

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Young Corowa Man Killed Transport Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 1

An accident which had fatal consequences for one of three young Corowa men occurred near Beveridge on the Hume…

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Condition of accident victims —Latest

Border Morning Mail · Friday 18 June 1954 · page 1

Late last night the accident victims who were admitted to Cobram Hospital were reported to be…

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Tallangatta Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 2

A pedestrian suffered head injuries in a collision with a motor truck in Towong St., Tallangatta, at 6.10 p.m. on Saturday, He is…

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Car and Motor Cycle in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 2

Motor cycle rider sustained a fractured thigh and shock when his machine and a car collided at 2. p.m. on Saturday at comer of…

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Stricken 'plane plunges into sea: Three drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 21 June 1954 · page 3

LONDON, Sun. ; Holidaymakers at Folkestone, on English seaside resort, watched helplessly late last night as a big twin-engined Convair plane crash-landed into the sea, bringing death to three of the nine people on board…

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Young Man Killed While Riding Accident at Windemere

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

A YOUNG man, Eric Charles Crellin, 22, was accidentally killed while riding to round up stock horses at Windemere, Booroorban, on Sunday. The Coroner, Mr. T. F. Cook, J.P., at an inquest at Hay to-day,…

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Accident at Tallangatta

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 2

A report in yesterday’s “Mail” of an accident at Tallangatta in which Mr, Thomas Hunter, of Dagmar st., Tallangatta,…

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Constable found driver involved in accident asleep in car

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 22 June 1954 · page 8

A police constable told Albury Court yesterday that when he went to the scene of an accident in the early hours of Sunday morning, the driver of the car was in the front seat asleep…

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Calf Causes Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 2

Two brothers. Analas and Maenus Valiukas. ager 19 and 17, of Jindera. were slightly injured when their motorcycle hit a stray…

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Rutherglen player hurt in accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 23

Rutherglen ruckman Brian Lucas Was injured in a car accident on Sunday night and will miss several games…

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“Million hi one chance” accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 23 June 1954 · page 10

SYDNEY, Tues.: A strange accident story was told in the Workmen’s Compensation Court today, which was…

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