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Murray · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Make Easter holiday break accident-free: appeal to all road users

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Fri.: Appealing to all Australian road users to avoid accidents during the Easter holidays, the chairman of the Australian Road Safety Council (Mr. T. G. Paterson) today recalled that last Easter 36…

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Freak Accident

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 10 April 1954 · page 1

A car and a trailer, being tower in the opposite direction by another ear, were involved in a freak accident near Glenrowan…

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Boy Drowned in Creek

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 15

NEWCASTLE, Sun.: Ambulance officers used an improvised grappling hook to locate the body of an 11-year-old boy who was…

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Collingwood Captain Injured

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sun.: Playing in a practice game Collingwood yesterday in preparation for the opening of the 1954 Victorian…

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Items of news Cars in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 2

Two cars collided on the Hume Highway, two miles north of at 6 40 p.m. on Saturday. One was driven by Saraban…

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Drowning Accident

The Riverine Grazier · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 2

Vincent Anthony Dundon, 9 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Dundon, had been drowned in a water hole at the Tocumwal golf…

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Racing Motorist Injured

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 9

ROME, Mon.: Mike Hawthorn, the 25-year-old British racing motorist, was seriously injured when his car burst into flames…

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Man Victim of “Amazing Accident”

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 7

SYDNEY, Mon.: A man had died following “an amazing accident that might never happen again in a lifetime,” Parramatta…

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Coroner finds trainees drowned accidentally

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 20

NEWCASTLE, Tues. : Two Army trainers drowned convoy of amphibious vehicles were swamped off Stockton Beach on March 8 had died accidentally the Raymond Terrace…

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Albury Man Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 2

While camping en route to Carrathool on a fishing trip, Mr. W. Nordsvan of Albury fell from a truck and sustained a suspected…

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Bus and Mourning Coach in Collision

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 April 1954 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Wed.: A collision between a bus and a funeral mourning coach in heavy rain in Royal Parade, Parkville,…

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Four accidents in city in five hours

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 15 April 1954 · page 3

Albury police yesterday attended four accidents within the city in five hours. First accident occurred in…

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Few Easter Accidents in W.a

Border Morning Mail · Saturday 17 April 1954 · page 2

PERTH. Fri.: Easter in Western Australia has been marred by only one fatality, a five-year-old boy, and one…

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Five Killed on Roads: Three Drowned

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sun. : Five people have been killed and 11 injured in road accidents since Friday…

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Few Accidents in West Australia

Border Morning Mail · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 16

PERTH, Sun.: Up to late tonight only two people had been killed in West Australia over the Easter holidays, both of them in…

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Culcairn Boy Injured at Albury

Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 20 April 1954 · page 3

A five-year-old Culcairn boy was injured when he ran in front of a motor car and was knocked down in Wodonga…

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Young Woman Fatally Injured

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 9

MELBOURNE, Tues.: A young married woman died in Echuca District Hospital early today from injuries received in a head-on…

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Near Accident-free Easter

Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 7

HOBART, Tues.: Only one person was killed over the Easter holidays in Tasmania, despite the record traffic on the roads. The…

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Items of News Horse Destroyed After Collision with Cae

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 2

A horse, which was injured in an accident with a car on the Hume Highway, 12 miles from Wodonga, at 4.30 a.m. yesterday,…

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Model seriously injured in head-on crash

Border Morning Mail · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 6

ORANGE, wed.; Well-known Sydney model, Jeanne Walsh, 22, is critically ill in Orange Hospital following a head-on…

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