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Freak Accidents Of 1955 Top National Safety Digest
The National Safety Council’s year end roundup lists bizarre injuries from 1955. Gene Scott of Rushville Nebraska shot by a car door. a dog-triggered rifle accident. a fish firing a gun. a tooth brush swallow. two dogs driving cars. a two year old boy driving a car. a girl driving into a fire plug. a green light mishap. a car crashing through showroom doors. a ceiling light falling on a car. a drowning of a couple in an old folks home and more. Safety First ends with the punch line that life’s oddities continue unfolding.
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Dew Drop Inn
National Safety Council
Gene Scott
Rushville
Neb
Gene
New Liberty
Town
David Dahl
Terry
Bobby Bright
Gonzales
Tex
Bobby
Detroit
Dorothy Gazzeny
Fort Wayne
Ind
Black River Falls
Wis
Timothy Davis
Long Beach
Calif
Timothy
Timmy
Margaret Ann Kilby
Indianapolis
Margaret Ann
Dew Drop
Port Huron
Mich
Anchor Bay
E. T. Drake, Jr
Atlanta
Drake
Los Angeles
Lewis Jackson, Jr
Stanton Sapp
Daniel
Mount Vernon
Ohio
Copenhagen
Else Sorensen
Karen Kirk Lassen
Nora Kaye
New York
Igor Youskevitch
Chicago
Isobel Gutierrez
New York City
Walter
Milwaukee
Robert Bierwirth
United States
Bremen
Bob Unsicket
Grand Forks
N. D
Leo Mondry
Hollywood
Burns and Allen
Gracie Allen
Walter Bergman
Ashton
Idaho
Tray