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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Rolls Royce in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 30 November 1954 · page 9

No one was injured when this Rolls Royce, containing a driver and four children, collided with an eight ton…

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Three Wool Buyers Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 December 1954 · page 24

Three Melbourne wool buyers, who came to Albury for the wool sales today, were injured when a car in which they were…

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36 May Be Drowned Ship sinks in storm

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 1 December 1954 · page 24

LONDON, Tuesday: The 7373-ton cargo ship Tresillian is reported to have sunk in stormy seas south of…

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40 Injured in Tram Crash

Border Morning Mail · Friday 3 December 1954 · page 17

SYDNEY, Thurs.: Forty people were injured when two crowded teams collided in City road, Newtown, today…

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Man Drowned at Howlong

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1954 · page 1

A 64-year-old Howlong laborer, Thomas William Saunders, of Russell st., was found dead in 14 feet of water…

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Truck-car in Head-on Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1954 · page 1

Driver of the car, Arthur Gideon Scott, of Crisp st., Albury, received lacerations when his vehicle and…

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Injured Bullock Destroyed by Police

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1954 · page 2

Wodonga police used five shots to administer the coup de grace to an injured bullock which was lying in a distressed condition on…

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15 injured in bus plunge

Border Morning Mail · Monday 6 December 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: Fifteen people were injured — two seriously — when a crowded bus plunged 15ft. over an embankment and…

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Man Drowned at Howlong

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 1

On Sunday afternoon the body of Thomas William Saunders 64, labourer, of Howlong was recovered in 14 feet of…

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Street Corner Collision at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 2

A utility and station wagon were involved in a collision at the Dean and Kiewa streets corner at 10.50 a.m. yesterday. Charles Dudley…

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Street accident: Driver charged

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 7 December 1954 · page 12

An accident between a motor car and a bicycle at the intersection of Dean and Young streets on the night of July 24 last, when…

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"There's Been an Accident."

The Corowa Free Press · Friday 10 December 1954 · page 5

Accidents mar many a summer holiday. Venturesome youngsters strike trouble in deep water, Broken glass…

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Five accidents in Albury

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 1

Slight damage was caused in five traffic accidents, involving 10 vehicles, in Albury on Saturday afternoon. The mishaps occurred at an average rate of one on hour. The first, at 12.20 p.m., was…

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Make the Holidays Accident-free

Border Morning Mail · Monday 20 December 1954 · page 2

SCHOOL holidays have already commenced and next weekend the majority of Australia’s working community will “break-up” for a well earned Christmas and New Year holiday…

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“Grand” crashes : Seven men injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 21 December 1954 · page 8

LONDON, Mon.: Seven men and an antique grand piano they were carrying fell 40 feet when a staircase collapsed in a house in…

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Tyson Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 23 December 1954 · page 22

Injured by a ball from Ray Lindwall in England’s second innings of the second Test in Sydney, fast bowler, F, Tyson, is assisted from the [?]…

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Coroner Finds Accidental Drowning Death Follows Fall in the River

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 4

The Coroner, Mr. T. F. Cook, found at the Coroner's Court held at Hay on Wednesday, that the death of…

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Baby Died Accidently in Bed Coroner's Inquest

The Riverine Grazier · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 1

THE Coroner, Mr. T. F. Cook, J.P., on Wednesday, after hearing evidence at an inquest into the death of a two months' old infant, Michael John Clifton, on December 15, found that the child had been…

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Items of News Death Due to Accident

Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 2

Coroner (Mr. W. Jasper), an inquest. at Rutherglen into the death of William James Dinsdale farmer, of…

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10 killed in collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 10

JOHANNESBURG, Sun.: Ten people, including a mother and her five children, were killed on Christmas Eve. when two lorries…

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