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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1952

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Car Overturns on Blowering Road Injured Man Conveyed To Sydney For Treatment

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 4

A 1950 Nash car containing five men who are employees of the Snowy Mountains Authority at Tumut Pond overturned near…

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Driving Under the Influence Adelong District Man Fined £30 And Disqualified From Holding Driver's Licence For Three Years Result of Collision at Tumut

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 3

AT THE TUMUT COURT OF PETTY SESSIONS ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY OF LAST WEEK WILLIAM PERCIVAL CRAIN, OF BANGADANG, WAS CHARGED WITH DRIVING A MOTOR VEHICLE WHILST UNDER THE…

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Accident on Batlow Road

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 1

At 2.30 p.m. on Sunday last a man named Brian Edward Semmler, 27, of Lindsay Street, Wagga, was driving a Willus Jeep utility…

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Easter Accidents on District Roads Two Lucky Escapes For Motorists

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 18 April 1952 · page 3

Although tee Easter holiday period passed over without any road fatalities there were two serious motoring…

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Knocked Down by Son’s Motor Cycle Albury Man Fataly Injured

The Gundagai Independent · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

A man who was knocked down by a motor-cycle ridden by his son, died in the Albury hospital on Saturday…

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Four Deaths in Vic. Road Accidents

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Monday—The driver and one passenger were killed instantly when a passenger bus crashed into a creek on…

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Four Die in Victorian Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday: The driver and one passenger were killed instantly when a pas­senger bus crashed into a creek on the Oxley Flat Road, near Wangaratta, early today. Seven other passengers were injured, three of them being admitted to the The two killed were among…

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Four dead in N.S.W. accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 21 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Four people were killed in road accidents in N.S.W. during the weekend. Four people were…

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Accidents on Highway

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 April 1952 · page 2

Those who journey by road to Sydney generally come across a motor truck or some other vehicle that had experienced an…

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Two Dead Two Hurt Tragic Accident Near Gundagai

Cootamundra Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1952 · page 2

A young married Melbourne couple were killed instantly early this morning when the car…

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Tragic Accident Two Killed, Two Injured

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 1

Near Tumblong early yesterday morning a tragic motor accident occurred, when a young married couple were killed instantly and another married couple were critically injured…

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Motor Accident on Sturt Highway Four Vehicles Involved

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Thursday 24 April 1952 · page 2

About 7 p.m. yesterday a motor accident occurred on the Sturt Highway in which four vehicles were involved, but only two came into…

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Committed After Motor Accident Young Man To Stand Trial at Sessions

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 25 April 1952 · page 5

Cootamundra district guazier, Kenneth Hanlon, has been committed for trial by the Coroner, Mr. H. Wardley, as…

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Local Items Boy Injured

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 2

Nine-year-old Clifford Chamberon, of Morundah Street, suffered a fractured right collar-bone yesterday…

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W.a. Traffic Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 26 April 1952 · page 5

PERTH, Friday: Three men were killed in traffic accidents in West Australia yesterday. John Wheatley Somers, 40,…

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Soldier Killed Near Wagga Four Injured in Other Accidents

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

An English paratrooper stationed at Kapooka Military Camp was killed, and tour civilians received injuries in…

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U.K. paratrooper killed near Wagga Four Injured in Other Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

An English paratrooper stationed at Kapooka Military Camp was kill­ed, and four civilians received injuries in four accidents during the…

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U.s. Navy Disaster Collision in Mid-atlantic

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 1

WASHINGTON, Monday—The United States destroyer and minesweeper, U.S.S. Hobson (2,755 tons) sank with an…

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Five Die: Vic. Accidents

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday: William Joseph Boucher, 48, of Wy Young, near Bairnsdale, was fatally injured when he was struck by a car while riding his bicycle near Bairnsdale last night…

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4 Die: Weekend Road Accidents N.s. Wales

Daily Advertiser · Monday 28 April 1952 · page 2

SYDNEY, Sunday: Four people (in one at Wagga— see Page 1) died in roa dents in New South Wales today. Many others were injured…

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