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| UpdatedThe Indian Pacific Wheel Race is cancelled after a competitor in the race from Fremantle to Sydney dies after being struck by a car in a pre-dawn crash south of Canberra.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, williamsdale-2620, nsw, fremantle-6160, canberra-2600, act, australia
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A plane with five people on board has crashed into the side of a shopping centre near Essendon Airport, in Melbourne's north, sparking a fire at the centre.
Topics: air-and-space, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, essendon-3040, melbourne-3000
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| UpdatedThere is no evidence to suggest the plane that crashed into a Melbourne shopping centre last month experienced "pre-impact" engine failure or had pre-existing faults, a preliminary report says.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, essendon-3040, vic
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| UpdatedA second man is found dead off the coast of Perth after the body of his 81-year-old boating companion was found on a Rockingham beach yesterday.
Topics: accidents, rockingham-6168
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The family of a man killed in crash on a South Australian freeway rejects an apology by the driver who caused the the collision, describing it as a "pathetic attempt" to get sympathy.
Topics: road, accidents, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, traffic-offences, port-germein-5495, adelaide-5000, sa
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A man is hit by the side of a train at a Melbourne railway station after trying to escape from officers who caught him smoking in a carriage, police say.
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, police, preston-3072
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Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, police, byron-bay-2481, mooloolaba-4557, brunswick-heads-2483
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There was plenty of action in remote NSW as state emergency services trained for a mass casualty and livestock disaster event.
Topics: emergency-planning, rural-women, sheep-production, accidents, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000, sydney-2000, tibooburra-2880
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| UpdatedAustralian television personality and Gold Logie nominee Grant Denyer walks away from a rally car crash in Victoria, while his co-driver sustains a suspected broken leg.
Topics: accidents, motor-sports, television, marysville-3779
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Rescuers who jumped to the aid of passengers during a boat crash which killed four people on Sydney Harbour are recognised with bravery awards 10 years after the tragic event.
Topics: accidents, maritime, community-and-society, sydney-2000
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| UpdatedSouth Korean salvage crews raise a ferry which sank in 2014 killing more than 300 people, preparing it for the slow journey to a port 90 kilometres away.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, maritime, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedThe ACT construction union calls for an immediate investigation into serious work injuries after new figures revealed claims for work-related injuries rose again, despite rates falling in every other jurisdiction.
Topics: workplace, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, unions, government-and-politics, canberra-2600, act, australia
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Police have found the propeller that fell off a Regional Express Airlines (REX) plane during a flight from Albury to Sydney last Friday.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, police, revesby-2212, nsw
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South Korea's sunken ferry slowly emerges from the sea three years after the disaster that killed more than 300 people, most of them children.
Topics: maritime, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedA South Korean ferry emerges from the water, nearly three years after it capsized and sank, killing more than 300 people.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, maritime, accidents, korea-republic-of
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| UpdatedThe Victorian Government says it will only trial a minimum distance for motorists overtaking cyclists if a public education campaign fails to make the roads safer.
Topics: cycling, road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, travel-health-and-safety, government-and-politics, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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A Rex Airlines flight has made an emergency landing at Dubbo Airport, the carrier's second mid-air incident in a week, with a passenger reporting flames coming from the flight 821's engine.
Topics: air-and-space, emergency-incidents, disasters-and-accidents, accidents, dubbo-2830
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| UpdatedA Rex Airlines flight makes an emergency landing at Dubbo Airport, the carrier's second mid-air incident in a week, with a passenger reporting flames coming from flight 821's engine.
Topics: emergency-incidents, air-transport, air-and-space, accidents, transport, dubbo-2830
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| UpdatedRoyal Flying Doctor Service staff in Broken Hill practice clearing a patient's airways with a 'vomiting doll' as part of emergency training.
Topics: rural, accidents, health, healthcare-facilities, medical-procedures, doctors-and-medical-professionals, broken-hill-2880, adelaide-5000, white-cliffs-2836, dubbo-2830, tibooburra-2880, wilcannia-2836
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Police have found the propeller that fell off a Regional Express Airlines (REX) plane during a flight from Albury to Sydney last Friday.
Topics: air-and-space, accidents, police, revesby-2212, nsw
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| UpdatedThe propeller that fell off a Regional Express plane over Sydney is located by police in bushland on the city's south-west outskirts.
Topics: air-transport, air-and-space, accidents, police, revesby-2212, nsw
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| UpdatedAuthorities recover the body of a former Royal British Marine who died at a Tasmanian mine site, as friends remember him as a "warrior" and a "legend".
Topics: workplace, social-media, accidents, defence-forces, mining-industry, savage-river-7321, tas, qld
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| UpdatedThe widow of a UK war veteran killed while working at a Tasmanian mine says she wants answers from the ADF, and that her husband only took the mining job because of delays getting a transfer to the Australian army.
Topics: workplace, accidents, savage-river-7321
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| UpdatedRegional Express Airlines confirms its fleet will continue operating as normal despite one of its planes losing a propeller on a flight between Albury and Sydney yesterday.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, air-and-space, camden-2570
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| UpdatedEmergency services say people could have been seriously injured when a car almost plunged off a multi-level carpark at Brisbane's Mater Hospital on Friday.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents, brisbane-4000