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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

321 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 12 of 17

Coroner Finds Death Is Accidental

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 28 September 1948 · page 2

The District Coroner, Mr. James Emery,. JP,. at the close of the inquiry into the circumstances of the death of…

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Cycist Injured In Head-On Collision

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

COFF'S HARBOUR.-- Two cyclists were injured when they were involved in a head-on collision at the turn-off from…

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Collision Sequel

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 4

BRISBANE, Thurs.--The driver of a Pioneer tourist bus, Frederick Horatio Leonard (32), and the driver of a firewood truck…

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Balt Canecutter Seriously Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 2

Vidzys Algirdas, a Balt cane cutter, employed at Heileman Island, below Brushgrove, suffered a probable fracture of the…

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Youth Injured At South Grafton

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 October 1948 · page 4

Noel George Ferguson, 15. son of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Ferguson of 28 Villiers street, Grafton, suffered a probable fracture of the…

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Trapped Under Truck: Drowned In Waterhole

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 October 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.-- Three men who were pinned under an overturned utility truck and drowned in 18 inches of water were discovered…

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Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1948 · page 2

Cecil Arthur Marshall, 26, of Halfway Creek, suffered a probable fracture of the skull when his motor cycle struck a tree…

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Motor Cyclists Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 October 1948 · page 2

Two motor cyclists wert injured in spectacular falls at the Maclean Six-Hour Day sports' meeting yesterday…

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Tragic Motor Accident

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 5 October 1948 · page 1

In a tragic motor accident near Woolgooiga on Saturday evening, Mrs. Edith Hannaford, 61 years, wife of…

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Young Motor Cyclist Fatally Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 6 October 1948 · page 2

CECIL Arthur (Fred) Marshall, 26, of Halfway Creek, who sustained injuries to the head when his motor cycle hit a tree on the Barcongarie Road, on Monday night, died in Grafton Base Hospital early yesterday…

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Accident At Mill

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 October 1948 · page 2

When using a saw at Gibbins' mill, Grafton, yesterday, Jack Ivan Jenkinson, single, (21), of 17 Alice street, Grafton almost…

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Boy Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 October 1948 · page 2

Frederick Perring, a Grafton Schoolboy, of 129 Hoof street, was injured in a fall from a bicycle yesterday. He was given first…

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Swimmers Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 October 1948 · page 2

When he trod on a sharp object in the Grafton baths yesterday, Malcolm Gilmore Saggus, 14, of Hunter street, Grafton,…

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Eye Injured

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 12 October 1948 · page 4

MYLNEFORD.--Mr. Reg Grebert suffered a serious injury to his eye when it was struck by a nail. He was given medical…

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Dorrigo Man Dies After Motor Collision Tragedy at North Driver Charged on Three Counts

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 1

Following a motor collision at North Dorrigo on Tuesday evening at about 6.45 p.m., a well- known local farmer, Sydney…

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Accidental Death

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 15 October 1948 · page 1

A verdict of accidental death was returned by the district coroner, Mr. R. Reid, after hearing evidence on Monday at the Dorrigo Court House,…

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Biggest Cause Of Road Accidents

Daily Examiner · Saturday 16 October 1948 · page 4

GLEN INNES.--The greatest single cause of road accidents due to human failure amongst drives and riders of vehicles and cycles…

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Injured in Collision

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 3

BELLINGEN.-- Mrs. White, of Taylor's Arm suffered severe shock when she was thrown to the roadway at Brierfield when…

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Girl Rider Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 2

Miss Joan Berryman (18), a vistor from Windsor, suffered an injury to her back when she was thrown from a horse in the…

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Shire Worker Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 18 October 1948 · page 2

BELLINGEN.-- Mr. Arnold Cooke, an employee of Bellingen Shire Council, was lucky to avoid severe injury when a gravel…

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