Death and Tributes
On Thursday September 1, 1955, Bunton was critically injured when his car crashed into three gum trees eleven miles north of Gawler, South Australia. He was alone in the car, and was treated at the scene for severe head injuries, a punctured lung, a fractured collarbone, fractured ribs and shock. On the Saturday morning he rallied slightly to encourage his son Haydn Jr. in an important match for North Adelaide that day. Bunton was declared dead on the night of Monday 5 September at the Royal Adelaide Hospital. He was buried at North Road Cemetery in Nailsworth, South Australia.
In 1996, Bunton was named at left forward pocket in the AFL Team of the Century, and was made an inaugural legend in the Australian Football Hall of Fame.
Read more about this topic: Haydn Bunton, Sr.
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