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Freak accident.

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  • 03-03-2010 6:45am
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    brendansmith
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    http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,1,26799979-952,00.html

    Flying steel hit by slasher kills woman walking to work


    March 03, 2010 12:21pm

    A WOMAN has been killed while walking to work after she was struck in the head by a piece of steel sent flying by a grass slasher.
    The woman, 42, was walking along the footpath on Eyre St, North Ward, in Townsville, just after 8am when she was hit by a projectile.
    It is understood a blade from a slasher being towed by a small tractor on a vacant block of land hit the piece of steel, sending it flying.
    Police also are investigating whether it was a flying blade that killed the woman.
    An ambulance was called at 8.12am but the woman died instantly.

    A distraught witness described the tragic event as a ‘freak accident’.



    News artical copied and pasted for ye there!


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    [Deleted User]
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    brendansmith wrote: »
    http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,1,26799979-952,00.html

    Flying steel hit by slasher kills woman walking to work


    March 03, 2010 12:21pm

    A WOMAN has been killed while walking to work after she was struck in the head by a piece of steel sent flying by a grass slasher.
    The woman, 42, was walking along the footpath on Eyre St, North Ward, in Townsville, just after 8am when she was hit by a projectile.
    It is understood a blade from a slasher being towed by a small tractor on a vacant block of land hit the piece of steel, sending it flying.
    Police also are investigating whether it was a flying blade that killed the woman.
    An ambulance was called at 8.12am but the woman died instantly.

    A distraught witness described the tragic event as a ‘freak accident’.



    News artical copied and pasted for ye there!

    You forgot to "quote" the story! :pac:


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    Jesus Wept
    Registered Users Posts: 25,243 ✭✭✭✭Jesus Wept


    Dolanbaker wants to know if you feel lucky, punk.


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    Sharpshooter
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    Do not put other peoples user names into thread titles,OP.

    Thread title changed.


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    bonerm
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    In further irony (or should that be steely?) Townsville general hospital is on that street.


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    Pyr0
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    I've always been very weary while walking past heavy machinery or people drilling or smashing up the pavement with something, i keep thinking a stone or fragment will come flying and kill me just like yer wan !


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