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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Accidents

Accidents, 1953

314 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers · page 6 of 16

Seriously Injured In Furniture Van Fire

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 21 April 1953 · page 2

A fully laden furniture ran ran off the Pacific Highway, 30 miles south of South Grafton, last night, caught fire and was totally destroyed. Two of the three…

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Child Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 23 April 1953 · page 2

Alison Anne Rudd, four-and-a-half-years-old daughter of the Wooli school teacher fell while playing…

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Injured in Mill Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 7

COFFS HARBOUR, Thurs.--In Coffs Harbour to-day George Fittock, 35, of Jean street, was injured in an…

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Rider Injured

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 3

One of the contestants in the bullock riding event at the Grafton Show, Lawrence Baker, 21 of South…

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Four Injured In Explosion

Daily Examiner · Friday 24 April 1953 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Thurs.--An explosion injured four men, two seriously, at Wangi power station to-day. The men are: Ken…

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Five Injured in Heavy Storm

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 28 April 1953 · page 2

BELLINGEN, Monday.--Five people were injured in a fierce electric storm which passed over Bellingen-Urunga district at about 3 p.m. to-day…

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Fined £2 After Serious Accident

Daily Examiner · Friday 1 May 1953 · page 2

COFFS HARBOUR.--At the Court of Petty Sessions, Ronald John Taylor, grader driver, of Woolgoolga, was…

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Taxi Accident

Daily Examiner · Saturday 2 May 1953 · page 4

A Grafton taxicab driver Mr. S. Ulrick, narrowl escaped serious injury last night when his vehicle…

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Road Accidents In Rain Eight Killed; 30 Injured

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sun.--Eight people have been killed and more than 30 injured in road accidents since heavy rain began on Friday. The rain and slippery roads have been…

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Man Drowned; Car Plunged Into Creek

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, Sun.-- A man was drowned when his car plunged over a flood wrecked bridge into a creek…

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Glenreagh Youths Injured in Capsize

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 2

Two Glenreagh youths were admitted to Grafton Base Hospital on Saturday night following the capsize…

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Fatal Wound Was Accidental

Daily Examiner · Monday 4 May 1953 · page 1

KEMPSEY, Sunday.--The District Coroner, Mr. N. L. Parker, J.P., yesterday found that Francis Lewis…

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Cadets Injured By Bomb

Daily Examiner · Tuesday 5 May 1953 · page 1

PERTH, Monday.--Eight country school cadets were injured--three seriously--when a mortar bomb…

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Boy, 6, Drowned In Floodwaters

Daily Examiner · Thursday 7 May 1953 · page 1

SYDNEY, Wed.--A six-years-old boy was swept away and drowned in flood-waters at Pambula on the…

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30 Hurt in Collision

Daily Examiner · Saturday 9 May 1953 · page 3

This picture shows how the tray of a semi-trailer cut into the front of a tram as they both plunged into the garden of a home in Ramsay street, Haberfield on Thursday morning. Thirty people were injured in the collision…

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Plane Collision

Daily Examiner · Monday 11 May 1953 · page 2

CHIEVRES (Belgium), Sunday.--Three Belgian Air Force meteor jet planes collided in the air during a…

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Trueman Injured Ankle

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 7

LONDON, Tues.--Fast bowler, Fred Trueman, England's "secret weapon" for the coming Tests against…

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Hassett To Rest Injured Arm

Daily Examiner · Wednesday 13 May 1953 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday.--Australian captain, Lindsay Hassett, decided last night to rest his injured arm in…

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Lad Injured

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 2

Ronald Earl Davis, son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Davis, of 49 Fry street, Grafton, suffered a deep cut on his…

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Lower River Men Injured Near Inverell

Daily Examiner · Thursday 14 May 1953 · page 2

Two Clarence district men were injured in a motor accident a few smiles from Inverell yesterday…

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