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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1941

431 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 22

Motor Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 6 March 1941 · page 4

The danger of stray cattle on the Grafton-Ulmarra highway, was again emphasised on Tuesday night, when Edward William Rice, of Grafton,…

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Cascade Man Injured Motor Accident on Eastern Dorrigo Head-on Collision

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 2

At about four o'clock on Sunday afternoon a motor cycle and a motor car came into head-on collision on the Eastern Dorrigo road, between…

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1500 DROWNED In Italian Troopship Greeks Shell Enemy. London

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 March 1941 · page 5

The Greeks to-day were successful in local actions in Albania. Greek planes bombed troop concentrations and machine gun nests…

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Steel Pin in Thigh Man's Painful Accident. Ulmarra

Daily Examiner · Saturday 8 March 1941 · page 4

Mr. Victor Knox, a breadcarter, of Ulmarra, was admitted to the Grafton District Hospital to-day with a steel pin embedded to a depth of about four…

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Harwood Mill Employee Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

Mr. B. Kempnich. an employee of the Harwood sugar mill, was injured on Saturday afternoon when his foot was crushed by a heavy niece of machinery…

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Fisherman Drowned Two Others Missing. Adelaide

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

Three men are believed to have been drowned while on a. fishing trip last night about a mile and a half east of Eight Mile Creek, near Port…

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Car Capsized Surf Life Savers Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

The North Coast junior surf champion, G. Hampton, of Byron Bay, was one of three men injured when a motor car capsized near Woodburn on…

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Maclean Collision Motor Cycle and Truck. Maclean

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

On Saturday morning a motor cyclist named Cyril Burton, of the Crown Farm, Southgate road, was travelling from Tyndale to Grafton and when…

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Drowned in Surf R.A.A.F. Trainee At Evans Head Others in Hospital. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 March 1941 · page 4

Leading Aircraftman Murray Horwood, 23, of North Unley, South Australia was drowned in the surf at Evans Head to-day…

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Coffs Surf Club Last Sunday's Carnival Several Accidents

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1941 · page 2

Two things seriously marred the success of what promised to be one of the best surf carnivals Coffs Harbour had ever had on Sunday last…

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Teamster Injured at Yabbra Forest

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4

Struck by a swinging log when working in Yabbra State forest at 1.30 p.m. on Tuesday, Joseph Stanley Patmore, 58. Old Bonalbo, suffered serious…

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Children Crushed By 1000 Gallon Tank One Dead, Two Injured. Lismore

Daily Examiner · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4

Denise Steel, two years, was crushed to death, and her brother, Kevin, two years, was critically injured, and Janice Berry, three years, received abrasions…

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Driver Injured in Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 4

When the car in which he was driving to Byron Bay collided with a truck driven by Mr. J. Wright, also of Byron Bay, Mr. P. W. Stone received injuries…

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Child Drowned Near Tamworth

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 4

Paul O' Brien, aged two years, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O'Brien, of Nemingha, was drowned in a lagoon 30 yards from his home at Nemingha, near…

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Bus Overturns Nine Men Injured Accident on Mountain Road. Newcastle

Daily Examiner · Saturday 15 March 1941 · page 5

Nine men were injured and admitted to Maitland Hospital to-night after a bus conveying about 23 workers from a job near Bulladelah…

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Two Killed In Aircraft Accident Northern Territory Crash. Melbourne

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 March 1941 · page 4

Two members of the R.A.A.F. were killed as the result of an aircraft accident near the Adelaide River in Northern Territory on Saturday. This…

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Child Critically Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 4

Malda Enid Matley, the 11-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Matley, of Glen Innes, is an inmate of the Glen Innes District Hospital in a critical…

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Injured Whilst Diving

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 18 March 1941 · page 4

Whilst diving from the municipal wharf in Magellan street, Lismore, on Sunday John Trevan, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Trevan, of Wyrallah road…

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Injured Whilst Shunting

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 4

Whilst engaged in shunting operations at the Wallarigdrra railway yards. Mr. Cliff Stevenson suffered abrasions and contusions to the body and severe…

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Train Wrecked 4 KILLED, 108 Injured. New York

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 19 March 1941 · page 5

The Federal Bureau of Investigation agents to-day were seeking saboteurs responsible for the wrecking of five cars on a Cleveland to Pittsburg…

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