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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Child's Death From Burns Accidental

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 2 January 1954 · page 2

A 14-months-old baby, the child of a Sydney couple, died in the Wagga Base Hospital on Thursday from scolds accidentally received…

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Uranquinty youth injured

Daily Advertiser · Monday 4 January 1954 · page 2

A Uranquinty youth was admitted to the Wagga Base Hospital for observation yesterday morning alter a fall…

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Griffith man killed in collision

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 1

GRIFFITH, Tuesday: A 40-year-old fans laborer was fatally injured last night when a car collided frith his…

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Jockeys injured

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Wednesday: Jockey Barry Smith had his lung punctured and apprentice Cliff Clare was also…

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20,131 road accidents in 3 months

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 1

CANBERRA, Wed.: There were 20,131 road accidents in Australia in the three months to the end of last…

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Heaviest Traffic Ever----no Serious Accidents Accidents Gundagai Garages’ Record Petrol Sales

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 7 January 1954 · page 1

MORE MOTOR VEHICLES HAVE PASSED THROUGH GUNDAGAI DURING THE PAST FOUR WEEKS THAN IN ANY SIMILAR PERIOD IN THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN. THERE HAS BEEN A CEASELESS FLOW OF…

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Cannery Workers Injured by Falling Tinplate

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 2

A fulling sheet of [?]nplace struck two cannery workers yesterday morning, which necessitated the calling of the…

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Injured School Girl Flown to Sydney

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

Anne Bride Kirk, the school girl from Balgowlah, Sydney, who was injured when knocked down by a car in Kurrajong Avenue,…

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Man Killed in Road Accident at Griffith

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

Harry Maro, an Italian who lived at Griffith for ninny years and who had only recently returned from a visit to Italy was…

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Holiday Period Free of Accidents Police Also Had Quiet Time

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

Officers associated with the Junee ambulance and the police station report a holiday period notably free from…

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Tried to Test Water's Depth Boy drowned in canoe accident

Daily Advertiser · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Sunday: A seven-year-old boy was drowned off shore at Sorrento when he jumped from a canoe to rest the depth of the water yesterday…

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Boy Injured at Baths

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 3

About 3.10 p.m. on Sunday, Peter Honeysett, aged 7 years, of 54 Yanoo Avenue jumped off horizontal bar at the baths and…

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Boy Injured While Playing in Hall

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 3

Billy Moyers, aged 13, the son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Meyers of Wamoon, met with a painful accident while playing, with other…

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Child nearly drowned at Murrami Mother's Timely Rescue

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 12 January 1954 · page 2

Pamela Neil, the two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil, of Melbourne, who were holidaying with Mr. and Mrs…

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Wants Grass Cleared at Mill Crossing Narrow Escape From Collision

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 5

The Illabo Shire Council will make immediate representations to the Railway Department to do away with…

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Junee Hospital Matron Involved in Accident

Junee Southern Cross · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 8

Matron E. Dean, of the Junee District Hospital, left Junee on her annual vacation on Friday last, intending to…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Cootamundra Herald · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 2

Roy McGregor, of Yass road, Yass, was treated by Cootamundra District Ambulance yesterday when his motor cycle…

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District People Injured Motor Smash At Coolac

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 1

Two district residents were injured last night when their car collided at the Gobarralong turn off at…

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That Car Accident! Why Did It Happen to You? Does The Wife Nag, Or Does The Boss Get You Down ?

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 8

It the facts and figures could ever be complled, it would be found that most traffic accidents are not the result of speed, lack of judgment, drinking, or driving with one arm around your wife, Writes Relman Morin, in a New…

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Two Accidents in Two Hours Tourist's Unenviable Experience

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 15 January 1954 · page 3

Mr. W. Triebel while on a motor tour during the Christmas holidays and the unenviable experience of being in two…

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