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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

321 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 5 of 17

Head Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 31 March 1948 · page 2

Lyle Watkins, 19, woodcutter, of Collins' Creek, via Kyogle. suffered a head injury when a tree which he was felling at…

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Men Injured In Train-Truck Smash

Daily Examiner · Thursday 1 April 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--Two men were seriously injured and a tram-car was wrecked this morning when it collided almost head on with a…

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Woman Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 2 April 1948 · page 3

Mrs. Edna Francis Tomlinson, 87 Villiers street, Grafton; suffered a wound on the chin and abrasions to her hand yesterday…

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Injured Arm

Daily Examiner · Saturday 3 April 1948 · page 2

ULMARRA.--While walking in the yard at her home. Mrs. F. Felsch fell and injured her arm. She was transported by the…

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Accident to Builder

Daily Examiner · Monday 5 April 1948 · page 2

WOOLGOOLGA.--While working on a building, Roy Willett, of Woolgoolga, suffered a severe lacerated foot. Turning sharply…

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Young Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 7 April 1948 · page 2

A motor car driven by George Louis Hampstead, of Grafton, and a bicycle ridden by Neville Oxenford, 11. son of Mr. and Mrs. P…

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Car And Motor Cycle In Collision

Daily Examiner · Thursday 8 April 1948 · page 2

A car driven by J. G. Kaylock and a motor cycle ridden by Ivan Thomas Gillett, both South Grafton, came into collision…

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Car Collision

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 2

A woman driver of a car reported to Grafton police yesterday that her vehicle had come into collision with the front of a…

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Man Drowned While Asleep

Daily Examiner · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 2

A man who was found dead on the hanks of the Clarence River about 4 p.m. on February 8 had been released from the…

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Two Accident Cases Treated by Ambulance

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Friday 9 April 1948 · page 1

Last Friday Coffs Ambulance received a call to Woolgoolga to attend Mr. Roy Willett, a carpenter employed by Mr. Herb Clouten, who had…

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Bus Lifted Off Car After Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 10 April 1948 · page 2

MACLEAN, Friday.--Traffic on the Yamba road was held up for an hour this morning while jacks were used to lift the front of a bus from a car after a collision on the Coldstream bridge. The two occupants of the car…

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Two Injured In Car Crash

Daily Examiner · Monday 12 April 1948 · page 2

Two brothers were injured when a car crashed over a 59 feet high embankment on the Pacific Highway, near Corinth,…

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Lad Injured While Exercising Horse

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 14 April 1948 · page 2

MACLEAN.--Neville Davis, 15, of [?]llarwill. while exercising one of Mr. A. Ryan's 'horses. at the Maclean Showground, met with…

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Rider Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 15 April 1948 · page 2

MOLETON.--Mr. Dennis Wallace suffered facial injuries and body bruises when the horse he was riding bolted and fell. It…

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Footballer Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 2

When playing football on Wednesday, Donald Winkler (14), son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Winkler, of 19 Ridge street, South Grafton,…

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High Jump Rider Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 16 April 1948 · page 5

A probable fracture of the left leg was suffered by Colin Thompson, of Jandowae, Queensland, during the Zietsch Bros.'…

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Acting Postmaster Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 2

The Acting Postmaster at Grafton, Mr. Hessell Frank Braby, of 57 Pound street, was injured yesterday afternoon, as a result of…

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Week-End Accidents

Daily Examiner · Monday 19 April 1948 · page 2

Leslie Owen Brown, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown, of Southgate Road, suffered a wound on his great toe, when he trod on…

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Motor Cycle And Bicycle In Collision

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 3

A motor cycle ridden by Claude James McLeay (20), of Peat's Ridge, via Gosford, and a bicycle ridden by Rex Brown (11), a…

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Nasty Accident To Bullock Driver

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 20 April 1948 · page 2

When clearing a path for his bullock team in the bush at Bonville last week, Mr. Jack Burgess suffered a nasty laceration across the right…

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