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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1944

171 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 9

Arrest Follows Accident

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 June 1944 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.--Following the accident at St. Mary's yesterday, when a man and his wife lost their lives and another man was…

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Railway Fettler Injured At Kempsey

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 June 1944 · page 4

KEMPSEY, Fri.--William Hageman, 58, railway fettler, stationed at Kempsey, met with a serious accident while proceeding to…

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Soldiers Injured In Rail Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 June 1944 · page 3

MELBOURNE, Sun.--Two soldiers were injured, one"seriously, in suburban rail accidents last night…

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Children's Deaths in Road Accidents Caused by Parents

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 June 1944 · page 2

These are extracts from reports on road accidents in country towns and rural areas of New South Wales:— When the driver of a car, who had…

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W.O. Berry Ulrick Killed in Accident Whilst Flying Bomber

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 June 1944 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOR, Sat.--On Friday morning the very sad rows that Warrant Officer Berry Ulrick, of the R.A.A.F.,…

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Ambulance Cases South Grafton Accidents

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 June 1944 · page 2

Eva Wratten, 20 years of age, of Armidale road. South Grafton, suffered a lacerated wound to the right great toe when it was cut…

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Accident At Colliery

Daily Examiner · Thursday 22 June 1944 · page 3

NEWCASTLE, Wed.—When the wire rope used for transporting men from the pit top to the pit bottom broke at Pelaw Main…

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Varying Speed Cause of Accidents

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 23 June 1944 · page 3

Reports on road accidents in which pedestrians have been injured are revealing a new hazard. More and more victims are stating "I was…

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Mental Patient Drowned While Escaping

Daily Examiner · Saturday 24 June 1944 · page 4

SYDNEY, Fri.—William Butter (26) was accidentally drowned in the Hawkesbury River when a boat in which he and another…

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Cyclists' Pranks Cause Accidents

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 30 June 1944 · page 1
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When it was reported last week that a schoolboy rode his bicycle along a track on the edge of a 300-ft. cliff in Sydney and fell to his death,…

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Two Men Injured In Trucking Operations At Grafton Yesterday

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 2

Struck by the jib of a steam crane while they were preparing to unload a truck of timber at the railway siding of the…

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Six Treated For Injuries In Car Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 1 July 1944 · page 2

Six persons were injured last night when a sedan car owned and driven by Mr. Tim Cowling., of Glenreagh, overturned…

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Grafton Fettler Seriously Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1944 · page 4

LISMORE, Thurs.--When a railway tricycle on which he was travelling on Tuesday left the line at Cougal, Mr. A…

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Train Crashes Through Bridge: One Killed Three Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 7 July 1944 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thurs.--When a timber mill train crashed through a bridge in a heavily wooded gully 13 miles from Barwon…

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Car In Creek: Men Drowned

Daily Examiner · Monday 10 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—Two men were drowned early this morning in Porter's Creek, near Wyong, when their car left the road and…

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Soldier Injured In Fall From Train

Daily Examiner · Monday 17 July 1944 · page 3

SYDNEY, Sun.—When he fell from a train in a tunnel near St. Peter's Station last night, Sergt. Gnr. T. V. Heffron, 18, was…

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17 Injured in Collision

Daily Examiner · Thursday 20 July 1944 · page 3

WELLINGTON, Wed.—Seventeen people were injured in a head-on collision between a crowded bus and a lorry at Lower…

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Sleeper-Cutter Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 21 July 1944 · page 2

A sleeper-cutter, Arnold Alaban, while working in the bush in the Newry State Forest, near Nambucca Heads, on Wednesday…

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Verdict Of Accidental Death At Inquest Yesterday

Daily Examiner · Saturday 22 July 1944 · page 2

A verdict of accidental death was recorded by the District Coroner, Mr. T. H. Brooke, P.M., at the conclusion of the inquest yesterday, into the…

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