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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1940

559 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 15 of 28

Local and General Collision at Intersection

Daily Examiner · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 4

A motor [?] and a car came [?]…

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Accident Not Reported

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 31 May 1940 · page 3

Peter Joseph Tognolini was fined 12s and 8s costs at Wingham Police Court last Friday on a charge of having failed to report a motor car…

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Road Fatality

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 4

When a utility truck overturned on the Warialda-Bingara road, Thomas Andres Berridge (35) was killed at 6 p. m. on Wednesday. The vehicle…

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Rider Injured in Fall. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 3

When Aussie Bee crashed in a schooling hurdle at Randwick this morning this rider, H. Paton, narrowly escaped serious injury…

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Road Collision Police Court Sequel Hearing at Maclean. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 8

A sequel to a collision between two cars on the Moroe road on March 22 was heard in the Maclean Police Court on Wednesday last before Mr. A. J…

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Accidental Death Shock Following Burns South Grafton Tragedy Coroner Extends Sympathy at Inquest

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 7

"I find that the deceased, Francis William Elder, died at the Grafton District Hospital on May 28, from shock, following extensive burns…

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Local and General Accident Near Lismore

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 June 1940 · page 4

When a motor car left the road and collided with a telephone post 14½ miles from Lismore on the Lismore- Nimbin road late on Thursday…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 4

Donald Charles Peek, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Peek, of Bacon street, Grafton, sustained a fractured right forearm when he tell from a verandah at his…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 4

Keith Jackson, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Jackson, Alice street, Grafton, sustained lacerated wounds to the right elbow, abrasions to the right hand, hip…

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Thrown From Horse Girl Injured at Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Monday 3 June 1940 · page 4

Freda Josephine Ellem (15), daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Ellem, of Deep Creek, Ulmarra, suffered injuries to the head and back as the result of a…

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Cyclists Run Over Collision In Queen Street Verdict for Defendant

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 3

Before Mr. A. J. Bryant, P.M, In the Grafton Court of Petty Sessions yesterday, Gladys Howard, by her next friend, Chas, Edward Howard,…

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Killed in Crash Verdict of Accidental Death Sydney

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 4 June 1940 · page 3

Badly hurt in a plane accident on January 22, Harold Hubert Cox, air cadet, limped into the Coroner's Court to-day on crutches, to give evidence…

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Head-on Collision Ten Persons Injured One Seriously Mishap on Harwood Road

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 June 1940 · page 4

Ten persons were injured, one seriously, when a utility truck and sedan car collided head-on on the Harwood-Maclean highway…

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Road Accidents Again Serious

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 June 1940 · page 4

At midnight on Tuesday last, the Road Safety Council had been advised of 37 deaths in road accidents during May. More than three fourths…

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Road Accidents Two Killed, One Injured. Sydney

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 1

In accidents on Saturday night Albert McKenna, 60, was killed; Frank Hughes, 56 of Pvmble, fatally injured, and Donald McKenna, 9, injured…

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"Cobber" Kain Killed in Air Accident. Wellington (N.z.)

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 June 1940 · page 4

Official advice has been received from London that the New Zealand air ace, "Cobber" Kain, has been killed in an aircraft accident in…

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Peculiar Accident Child's Serious Eye Injury, Woolgoolga

Daily Examiner · Thursday 13 June 1940 · page 4

Keith Mavin, six-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Mavin, of Grafton road, Woolgoolga, was the victim of a serious injury to his eye on Saturday…

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Sensational Collision In Grafton's Busiest Street Three Women Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 June 1940 · page 4

In full view of a large number of people a sensational collision occurred at the intersection of Prince and Fitzroy streets, Grafton, at about 10.30…

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Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 June 1940 · page 4

Arnold Gilby (20), of Tyndale, sustained injuries and abrasions to the left hand and wrist when a motor cycle he was riding and a car driven by Mr…

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Girl Injured Attacked by Dog, Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 June 1940 · page 4

Fifteen snarling greyhounds, locked in a shed, were found by the police to-day when they visited the premises of the owner of a pack of dogs which…

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