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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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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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City Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 2

A car and a utility were slightly damaged in a collision in Smollett st., at 10 a.m. on Saturday. The car was driven by Douglas…

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Two women killed in road accidents in Victoria

Border Morning Mail · Monday 8 March 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Two women died in motor accident yesterday, and three other people were injured. The 19-year-old…

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Racing Motorist Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 10

MELBOURNE Mon.: Jack Lanham racing motorist was seriously injured today when he was thrown from his car as it skidded…

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Army Drowning Tragedy Survivor’s graphic story of tight for life(Earlier References Page 1)

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 9 March 1954 · page 16

NEWCASTLE, Mon.; A graphic account of a two-hour bottle in rough seas after eight vehicles in the Army convoy had foundered early today, was given by Sgt. John Sharp, a…

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Her First Car Accident

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 10 March 1954 · page 2

A young Albury woman met with her first motor ear accident when she was being tested yesterday for her driver’s…

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Watersider killed, another injured

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed. : A waterside worker was killed and another seriously injured when a truck backed into them as they…

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Tribute to soldiers drowned in “duck” tragedy

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 11 March 1954 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Wed.: Hundreds of people in Christ Cathedral and along the funeral route paid tribute to…

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City Collision

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 13 March 1954 · page 2

Collision occurred about 3 p.m. yesterday in Edmondson avenue Albury. between a utility driven by Alan A. Miles. 750 Dean street…

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Wangaratta Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 3

At 7.45 p.m. on Saturday a truck and a small car collided at the intersection of Vincent road and Hume Highway,…

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Girl Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

Young girl Florence lvy Gray. of Wagga road, Lavington, was injured in a collision between her mother's car and another car…

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Railway Guard Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 2

Albury railway guard .[?] Winters, of 428 Macaulay [?] was injured near Table Top yesterday morning, an unconfirmed…

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Man drowned in irrigation channel

Border Morning Mail · Monday 15 March 1954 · page 16

WAGGA, Sun.: A Griffith resident died on Saturday afternoon in the Griffith District Hospital after he had been rescued from…

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Injured miner dies

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 3

WONTHAGGI, Thurs.: John Jury, 51, one of the three Wonthaggi miners who were injured at No 20 shaft at the State Coal…

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Trainer Badly Injured

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 16

NEWCASTLE Thurs.: A Newcastle trainer was badly injured when he was thrown from a racehorse in Melville road,…

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Wangaratta News WANGARATTA, Thursday Boy’s Drowning

Border Morning Mail · Friday 19 March 1954 · page 13

A finding of accidental drowning was returned by the deputy coroner, Mr D. Reid, at the inquest on Alan Sullivan, 14, of…

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Soldier Hurt in Road Accident

Border Morning Mail · Monday 22 March 1954 · page 2

A soldier from Puckapunyal camp was injured in a road collision 10 miles north of Wangaratta on the Hume Highway at…

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Two Injured in Motor Cycle Accident

The Corowa Free Press · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 3

Two men were admitted to Corowa Hospital on Saturday evening by Corowa Ambulance, following a motor cycle…

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In Albury Court Yesterday “Could not remember anything of accident”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 23 March 1954 · page 9

A young motor cyclist- told Albury court yesterday he remembered nothing of an accident in which he was involved on Christmas Eve. He is Albert L. Pepper, of…

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Migrant Killed in Collision at Yerong Creek

The Observer · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 5

A fatal accident occurred at Yerong Creek on Monday morning at 6.30 a.m., when George Fricke, of Lockhart, Mr. L. A. Scott, member of the Divisional Council (N.S.W.) with the Crown Staffordshire Plaque on which is painted a…

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