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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1951

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Fatally Injured By Train

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 2 January 1951 · page 2

Mrs. F. Pullen of Through, street, South Grafton, yesterday received news of the death of her son, Hector, who was fatally…

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Girl Drowned At Lake Illawarra

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Tues.-- A 13-year-old schoolgirl was drowned while surfing at Lake Illawarra South to-day…

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Road Accidents On Richmond

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 3 January 1951 · page 2

LISMORE, Tues.--During the past 10 days, 29 people were injured, one fatally, in 15 road accidents in the…

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Macquarie River Drowning

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Wed.-- A 17-year-old boy was drowned in the Macquarie River, about 16 miles from Trangie, to-day…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 4 January 1951 · page 2

The top joint of the third toe of his left foot was severed and the second toe lacerated when Dennis Stanley Shopman…

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One Killed: Seven Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 5 January 1951 · page 4

INVERELL. -- A woman received fatal injuries and six others were injured and admitted to hospital, following a…

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Motor Cyclists Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 2

MACLEAN.--A party of Maclean motor cyclists en route to Chatsworth on Saturday afternoon met with…

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Accident Rate Higher at Night Your Contribution To Road Safety--No. 4

Daily Examiner · Monday 8 January 1951 · page 2

THAT the accident rate increases after sundown is an established fact, and there are few but important causes…

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Injured Leg and Nose

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

Henry Gleeson (28), of 128 Pound street, Grafton, yesterday suffered a probable fracture of the right leg, and abrasions to…

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First Aid for Injured Stock

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 5

When veterinary advice is unavailable, a farmer with a very sick or injured animal often has to resort to some form of…

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Unusual Accident Near Coraki

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 10 January 1951 · page 2

CASINO, Mon.--A stationary car was run down by a bus near Coraki after its driver had stopped to aid a man lying by the…

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Cyclist Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 2

BELLINGEN.-- Neville Kilmore, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Kilmore, of Raleigh, suffered a fractured right thigh, shock and…

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One Killed, Two Injured On Dorrigo Mountain Road

The Don Dorrigo Gazette and Guy Fawkes Advocate · Friday 12 January 1951 · page 3

One Glen Innes resident was killed and two seriously injured in a motor accident on the Dorrigo Mountain Road on Saturday…

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Tressel Collapses; Painters Injured

Daily Examiner · Saturday 13 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY, Friday.-- Two painters escaped serous in[?]ry when they fell 40ft to the floor of the Dee why Theatre, in…

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Found Drowned After Dispute

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 16 January 1951 · page 3

LISMORE, Mon.--The body of 42-year-old Percy M. Winkler, who had been missing from his home in Lismore since…

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"Human Error Cause Of Road Accidents"

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 17 January 1951 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tues.--The human factor is the major cause of road accidents, said the Director of Road Transport…

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Six Believed Drowned Ship Founders Off Coast

Daily Examiner · Saturday 20 January 1951 · page 1

SYDNEY, Fri.--Six of a crew of 12 are believed to have been drowned when the 550 tons coastal ship Kiama foundered and sank without trace off North…

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Fatally Injured In Collision

Daily Examiner · Monday 22 January 1951 · page 3

SYDNEY Sun.--Robert Benson, 19, Sackville street, Bexley, was fatally injured when two trucks collided in a duststorm…

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Fatal Accident at Coramba

Coffs Harbour Advocate · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 1

Thomas Burns, aged 63 years, was fatally injured when he was struck on the head by a limb of a tree at Coramba…

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Old Man Killed In Bush Accident

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 23 January 1951 · page 2

An elderly Coramba bush-worker died in Coff's Harbour Hospital last ninght after being struck on the head by…

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