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Riverina · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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No Accidents in Wagga Yesterday

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 17 April 1954 · page 2

Police and ambulance officers last Bight reported an abnormally quiet Good Friday in Wagga…

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Boy sees his twin drowned

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A nine-year-old boy tried unsuccessfully to rescue his drowning twin brother from…

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Two Killed, Three Injured in Gar Crash

Daily Advertiser · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 2

BRISBANE, Sunday: Two brothers were killed and three other youths injured in a car smash near Maryborough…

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One Easter Fatality

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 1

HOBART, Tuesday: Only one person was killed over the Easter holidays in Tasmania, despite the record…

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Lucky Accident Says Calwell

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Tues.: The Federal Government had averted having Mrs. Petrov's blood on its hands only by a…

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Sequel to Collision Near Coolac

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 22 April 1954 · page 4

In the Gundagai Court this week, Adrian S. Kidd, of Sydney was fined £4 with 12/-costs on a charge of negligent…

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Man With Broken Leg and Injured Hand Drove and opened gates after accident

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

An extraordinary instance of a man's Spartan-like fortitude and endurance occurred at Kooba Station on Monday when Mr. W…

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Dramatic evidence at inquest On Late William Alex Rhodes Instantaneous Death After Collision with Bridge

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 3

An inquest was held at the Court House on Wednesday of last week by the District Coroner, Mr. W. Cox on the late William Alex. Rhodes of Whitton who was killed in the early hours of the morning on March 11…

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Two minor accidents in Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

The ambulance handled two accident cases in Wagga yesterday. Seven-year-old schoolgirl…

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Accident Caused by Driving Negligently

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 6

A. collision occurred between a small panel van and a car in Lome street shortly after 6 p.m. on December…

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Accident on Blowering Road Man in Tumut Hospital

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 1

Stanislaw Tuskiewez, of the general store at Cabramurra in the Snowy area, suffered a badly fractured leg when the…

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Car and Train in Collision

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 24 April 1954 · page 2

Wagga man Henry little escaped injury on Thursday night when his car was dragged some yards along the…

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Expresses Held Up Following Collision

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 26 April 1954 · page 2

All expresses were held up for about 12 hours today by a derailment at Bomen following a collision between a goods train…

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Accident Victim Improved

Daily Advertiser · Monday 26 April 1954 · page 2

The condition of a man who fractured his skull in a fall from a scaffold on Friday in improving…

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49 injured

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 3

CHICAGO Monday: Forty-nine people were injured yesterday when a surburban train bit the near of another…

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Two Wagga accidents

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1

Meryl Earsman (15), of Edward Street, received head injuries yesterday when she fell from a bicycle…

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Railway Collision in Fog at Bomen

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 4

One of the most serious railway accidents in the [?]nee district for many years occurred at Bomen…

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Collision at Wagga

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 1

Fairly extensive damage was done to the panel work of this car when it was thrown on its side after colliding with a utility. The accident occurred yesterday morning. A close-up view of the exterior damage done to a utility as the result of a…

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Accident Victim Dies

Daily Advertiser · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 2

Accident victim Robert Booth, of Hampden Avenue, died in the Goulburn Base Hospital last night…

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Youth drowned alter collapse

Daily Advertiser · Monday 3 May 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A 15-year-old boy was unable to save his companion, who collapsed and drowned with his head over the side of their rowing boat…

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