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Woman dies when car hits tree in Bunbury

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Woman dies when car hits tree in Bunbury
Article from: PerthNow
July 18, 2008 04:00pm
A WOMAN has been killed at Kemerton, near Bunbury, after the car she was driving slammed into a tree this afternoon.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 61,00.html
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Woman critical after being rescued from sinking car

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Woman critical after being rescued from sinking car
July 19, 2008 08:30am
POLICE dragged a semi-conscious Carine woman from her floating car in freezing water at Ocean Reef Boat Harbour in the northern suburbs at 11pm Friday.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 61,00.html
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350 evacuated after Qantas bomb threat

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350 evacuated after Qantas bomb threat

July 19, 2008 10:00am

MORE than 350 passengers and crew have been evacuated from a Sydney-bound Qantas flight from Los Angeles after a bomb threat.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 48,00.html
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Car cleans up Multanova

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Car cleans up Multanova, operator has lucky escape
July 19, 2008 10:30am
A MULTANOVA operator had a lucky escape this morning when an out-of-control ute skidded off the road and narrowly missed him.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 61,00.html
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jasonjag wrote:Car cleans up Multanova, operator has lucky escape
July 19, 2008 10:30am
A MULTANOVA operator had a lucky escape this morning when an out-of-control ute skidded off the road and narrowly missed him.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 61,00.html
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Crashes mar Saturday night in Perth

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Crashes mar Saturday night in Perth
July 20, 2008 12:00am
TWO male motorcyclists are in serious conditions in hospital after separate crashes in Parkerville and West Perth last night.

One was airlifted to RPH at 11pm after losing part the lower part of a leg when his motorbike crashed into a power pole on Byfield Rd in Parkerville about 9.30pm.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 61,00.html
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TWO male motorcyclists are in serious conditions in hospital after separate crashes in Parkerville and West Perth last night.
I heard sirens for about 45min and then a helicopter fly over head and circle around Parky. I didn't know what was going on so I headed to the pub to find out if anyone down there knew, only to find that the motorbike accident happened just up from the pub. There were 6 police vehicles blocking the intersection and taking measurements as well as mundaring VFRS, western power and a towtruck. I was told that he was taken to the oval then air lifted to hospital.
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Re: Crashes mar Saturday night in Perth

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jasonjag wrote:One was airlifted to RPH at 11pm after losing part the lower part of a leg when his motorbike crashed into a power pole on Byfield Rd in Parkerville about 9.30pm.
Was listening to 6AR when Rescue 65 departed Parkerville, then heard it pass over my house a minute later en-route to the city.
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I also heard at the time, 65 hovering in the area awaiting crews to switch over to a local channel.
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Transperth city bus fire

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Transperth city bus fire
July 21, 2008 06:40pm

EMERGENCY service personnel have extinguished a Transperth bus which caught fire at the William Street bus depot this afternoon.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 20,00.html
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SamW wrote:
TWO male motorcyclists are in serious conditions in hospital after separate crashes in Parkerville and West Perth last night.
I heard sirens for about 45min and then a helicopter fly over head and circle around Parky. I didn't know what was going on so I headed to the pub to find out if anyone down there knew, only to find that the motorbike accident happened just up from the pub. There were 6 police vehicles blocking the intersection and taking measurements as well as mundaring VFRS, western power and a towtruck. I was told that he was taken to the oval then air lifted to hospital.
Make an interesting sight, about 4 bikes and a TE car going lights & sirens away from Subiaco oval
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/custom ... 3520.story

Los Angeles. Police save man from drowning then shoot him dead.

http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/br ... ticle.html

UK. Seven fire-fighters, an aerial platform, two hours & £800 to rescue a seagull. In other news, don't eat Devon sausages.
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Driver crushed to death by road roller

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Driver crushed to death by road roller
July 22, 2008 04:32am

A TOW-truck driver has been crushed to death by a road roller north of Newcastle.
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0 ... 49,00.html
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http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol ... 304715.ece

Google ordered to hand over 12 terabytes of Youtube user data and personal information in a hunt for people posting copyrighted video. Not that anybody here would do that :)

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