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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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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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…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →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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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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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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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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Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 7
SYDNEY, Mon.: A man had died following âan amazing accident that might never happen again in a lifetime,â Parramatta…
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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…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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