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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Cars Damaged in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

Both cars were damaged when they collided at the Smollett street-Wodonga place corner at 6.50 p.m. yesterday. They were driven by…

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Salvation Army Lassie - Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

A 17-year-old Salvation Army member, Lois Cock, 748 Peel street, was not badly hurt when she was knocked off her bicycle by a car…

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Back May Be Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

Charles Burgess, of Sydney, received possible back and shoulder injuries when his small tourer ran off the road and apparently…

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Three Injured When Car Overturns

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

Three people were injured when their car overturned four mile from Daysdale at 4.30 p.m. Saturday They are James Charles…

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Only Three Minor Accidents at Wodonga

Border Morning Mail · Monday 27 December 1954 · page 2

Although the Christmas period traffic was the heaviest for some years at Wodonga this weekend, only three minor road accidents…

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Wagga Women Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 2

Two Wagga women injured in a car crash near Yerong Creek on Sunday night have been discharged from Henty Hospital. They are…

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Boy Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 2

An eight-year-old boy, Lindsay Lawrence Kotthoff, of 357 Smith street, Albury, received head injuries and lacerations when he was…

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An ex-resident visiting Rutherglen is drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 3

A 53-year-old former Rutherglen man was drowned in the Ovens River, near Rutherglen, yesterday afternoon. He was John Henry Williams, 17 Linden street,…

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Injured stockman crawled 30 miles through bush

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 7

BRISBANE, Tues.: An Aboriginal stockman crawled 30 miles through trash country in 11 days after running a stake his foot. The stockman, JACK EMMETT, 30. of Doomagee Mission,…

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Reporting of road accidents

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 8

Unexpected troubles experienced by motorists in law courts, through statements made in all good faith to police…

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Car Damaged in Wangaratta Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 16

This car was damaged in a collision with a semi-trailer at the railway crossing at Bowser, four miles north of Wangaratta on the Hume Highway, on Tuesday morning. The driver of the car was Nicholas Onsichtenko, of Sydney, a New Australian, and the semi-trailer wasdriven by Donald Taylor, of Sydney. No one was injured. The policeman in the picture is Constable…

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Body of man drowned at Rutherglen found

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 6

The body of John Henry Williams, of Melbourne, who was drowned in the Ovens River at Boorhaman North on Tuesday…

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Migrant Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 December 1954 · page 5

A New Australian motor cyclist was admitted to Albury Base Hospital late yesterday afternoon after his machine had crashed near…

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