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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Near Drowning at Baths

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 2

Quick work on the part of brothers in charge of C.B.C student at the City baths, yesterday afternoon, averted what could have…

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Cars Smashed Up in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 14

These two cars were involved in a collision on the Hume Highway, about 7½ miles west of Wodonga,…

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Fatal accident sequel: truck driver fined

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 16 February 1954 · page 8

The driver of a truck which knocked a man down in the Albury railway yards on October 12 was fined £3 with 12/ costs for…

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Boy Injured in Car-cycle Collision

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 2

A Grammar School pupil, John, Wesley Mott. 14, who boards with Mrs Creek, corner of Baratta and Wantigong streets, received…

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Woman, hurt in accident, sues former suitor

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 17 February 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Tues. : A woman today sued a former suitor for accident injuries received in his car when she was considering whether to accept his proposal of marriage. The woman, Patricia…

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Parachutists Injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 18 February 1954 · page 6

NEW YORK, Wed.: Twenty-five parachutists were injured, eight of them seriously, in a U.S. army jump near Colorado Springs,…

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Dead Man Missed Murder Committal Was drowned in farm dam

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 20 February 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Fri.: The Coroner (Mr Duggan) said at an inquest at Bunyip today that he would have committed a man for trial on a charge of murder if he had been alive today…

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Soldier in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 2

A car and a truck collided at 7.50 p.m. on Saturday on the Murray Valley Highway at Yackandandah, about four miles…

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Little boy fatally injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 February 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.: A three-year-old boy was fatally injured when a car struck him in News bridge road. Moorebank, early last night…

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Two toddlers drowned

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 16

SYDNEY. Mon. : Heavy rain was responsible for the deaths of two young children within half a mlie of each other near…

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Girl Injured Back While Diving

The Pastoral Times · Tuesday 23 February 1954 · page 6

Fifteen years old Margaret Fraser, of End Street, was admitted to the Deniliquin Hospital on Sunday, after she had…

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Boy Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 24 February 1954 · page 14

MELBOURNE, Tues.: Ronald Henley, six years, of Finlay St., Albert Park, was fatally injured and his sister, Kathleen, five…

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Policeman in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 2

Two cars one driven by an Albury police constable were involved in a minor collision at the intersection of Dean and…

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Woman Killed daughter injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 25 February 1954 · page 2

BENDIGO. Wed.: A woman was killed instantly and her daughter seriously injured when the mater car in which they were travelling…

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City Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

Two cars collided in Albury at about 12.55 a.m. yesterday no one was injured. Eric John Cooper of Thurgoona st., Albury, was driving…

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Two men believed drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 9

WOLLONGONG, Sun.: Two men are missing, believed drowned, in the ocean off Lake Illawarra. The men are Allan Hall and…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 March 1954 · page 2

A Wangaratta man was injured in an accident in Riley st., Wangaratta, at 3.15 yesterday afternoon. He is Edward Good, 43…

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Mother Finds Son Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 March 1954 · page 9

SYDNEY, Tues.: A woman found the body of her three-year-old son floating in three feet of water at Connell’s Point today…

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Man’s road death accidental, Coroner finds

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 4 March 1954 · page 8

Albury Coroner, Mr. A. S. Kendall, yesterday found a man had died in January as a result of injuries received in an accident…

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Two Small Boys Injured at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 6 March 1954 · page 26

Two children were injured in similar circumstances in the only two accidents in Albury yesterday afternoon…

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