CHLORINE GAS ESCAPES
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SYDNEY, July 24.
Seven victims of Friday’s escape of poisonous chlorine gas and hydrochloric acid are still in hospital.
They include the driver of a semi-trailer—carrying the gas and acid in cylinders—which overturned after striking a street pole in the suburb of Bexley. The driver, Colin McGregor,
and a policeman, Sergeant N. Walden, were admitted to hospital after breathing lungdamaging chlorine gas which escaped when cylinders of the chemicals, dislodged by the crash, leaked. Sixty-seven persons, including schoolchildren, housewives, and passing motorists, were taken to hospital after they breathed the gas as it blanketed the neighbourhood. It was the first accident of its kind in Australia. Police said today that 60 trucks loaded with deadly cargoes were on Sydney roads every day.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31120, 25 July 1966, Page 13
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