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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Factual Broadcasts Of Road Accidents

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 January 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Monday. — The public will be shown by dramas over a Sydney radio station that accident victims are…

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Fatal Shooting Accident

Northern Star · Tuesday 1 January 1952 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday. — A man found his wife accidentally shot dead on their farm, nine miles from Toowoomba,…

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One Killed, 18 Injured On Roads

Northern Star · Wednesday 2 January 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Tuesday. — One person was killed and 18 others injured, three seriously, in road accidents in N.S.W. today…

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Two Injured in Collision on Scenic Railway

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.—Government investigations will be made at Luna Park, St. Kilda, where more than 40 people…

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Record Year for Road Accidents

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Last year was the worst year on record for road accidents, the Commissioner for Road Transport, Mr. Shoebridge, said today…

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Accidents at Byron Bay

Northern Star · Thursday 3 January 1952 · page 4

BYRON BAY, Wednesday.—Joe Newstead, 16, a shop assistant, of Casino, suffered lacerated wounds and abrasions…

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8 Year Old Boy Drowned at Liverpool

Northern Star · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 5

SYDNEY, Thursday. — An eight years old boy was drowned while cray-fishing in the George's River, Liverpool,…

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Girl Cyclist Injured; Hit by Truck

Northern Star · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 4

A 16 year old girl was admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital, Lismore, yesterday after she had been struck by a motor…

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Worst Road Accident Year in New Zealand

Northern Star · Friday 4 January 1952 · page 5

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Thursday (AAP-Reuter).—Last year was New Zealand's worst for road accidents—292 deaths…

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Double Burning Fatality When Petrol Thrown

Northern Star · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.—Two men died in Swab Hill Hospital today from burns received in a blaze believed to have been…

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S.A. Road Accidents

Northern Star · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 1

ADELAIDE, Friday.—Police statistics reveal that in the first 11 months of last year, there were 7068 road accidents in…

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Accident or Suicide Not Clarified

Northern Star · Saturday 5 January 1952 · page 5

CASINO, Friday.—At an inquest into the death of Allen Maxwell Townsend, 21, a dairy farmer, of Dyraaba Central,…

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Huge Death Toll In Collision

Northern Star · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 1

RIODE JANEIRO, Sunday (AAP) —Twenty persons were burned to death and 30 others severely injured yesterday in…

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Lismore Man Drowned After Car Capsize

Northern Star · Monday 7 January 1952 · page 4

MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday.—A 30-year-old Lismore man was drowned when his car somersaulted and pinned him face down in a creek near West Burleigh late on Saturday night…

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Collapsed Into Water, Drowned

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A man was drowned when he fell overboard from a dinghy in Middle Harbour tonight…

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Tribute to Accident Victim

Northern Star · Wednesday 9 January 1952 · page 4

A rowing skiff draped with the Australian flag carried wreaths at the funeral in Lismore yesterday of Henry James Ellis, who was drowned after a car capsized' near Burleigh on Sunday. Members of the Rowing Club and Lismore R.S.L. formed a guard of honour at St. Carthage's Cathedral. The deceased had been an…

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"Wall of Death" Rider Fatally Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 10 January 1952 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Wednesday. —A woman "wall of death" rider was fatally injured in a spectacular fall from her…

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Trapped In Car, Priest Drowned

Northern Star · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. — A Roman Catholic priest was drowned early today when his car backed over Bradley's…

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Mother and 3 Daughters Drowned

Northern Star · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday.—The bodies of two baby girls, who were drowned with their mother and eldest sister at…

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Baby Drowned, Swept From Father's Arms

Northern Star · Friday 11 January 1952 · page 1

ROCKHAMPTON, Thursday.—A nine and a half months old baby girl, Isabella Foex, of Deeford, was drowned…

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