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Mid North Coast · Accidents

Accidents, 1954

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Thumb Injured When Cutting Wood

Macleay Argus · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 7

Mr. Charles Fitzpatrick, of Tozer Street, sustained a severe lacerated wound and a severed tendon, with severe…

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Man Killed In Bush Accident

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 5

Well known Ward's River sawmiller Mr. Archie Joseph Fenning, 48, was killed on Thursday in a…

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Taking Risk Causes Accidents

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Monday 5 April 1954 · page 4

The 1000-to-one chance taken now and then by nearly every motorist is a major cause of road accidents in…

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Hand Gashed in Accident

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 2

Large lacerations to both hands were received by A. L. Leonard, 33, of Tamworth, when he fell from a bicycle…

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Fined For Failing To Stop After Accident

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 7 April 1954 · page 8

Charged in the Taree Court of Petty Sessions with failing to stop after an accident, Mervyn James Schubert, of Lansdowne, was fined £28- by Mr. Lake, S.M…

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Head Injured In Painful Fall

Macleay Argus · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 4

Mrs. A. Griffin, of Frederickton, sustained a severe [?]acerated wound to the back of her head yesterday, when…

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Head-on Collision at Daisy Plain Injures Two Men

Macleay Argus · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 1

A head-on collision between two motor vehicles occurred at Daisy Plain yesterday, resulting in…

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Boy Fatally Injured at Wattley Hill

The Northern Champion · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 1

A nine-year-old boy, who suffered terrible injuries when caught in a machinery belt at Wattley Hill…

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Boy's Death Follows Accident at Wootton

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Tuesday 13 April 1954 · page 2

Terrible injuries, from which he died later, were received by Keith Gordon Smith, aged 9, when he was caught in the…

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Man Injured in Motor Accident

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 4

Mr. Horace Cavanagh, of Yarravel Street, sustained a probable fracture of several ribs on his right side, injuries…

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Army Disaster Verdict "Regrettable Accident"

Macleay Argus · Wednesday 14 April 1954 · page 1

NEWCASTLE, April 13. -- The death of two Army trainees in an amphibious manoeuvre, near Stockton last month, was a "regrettable accident," said the Raymond Terrace Coroner, Mr. W. Priddle…

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Women Injured in Accident Near Coopernook

The Northern Champion · Thursday 15 April 1954 · page 1

Two persons were injured when a utility truck skidded in wet bitumen and turned over on the Pacific Highway…

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Car And Cow Collision

The Gloucester Advocate · Thursday 15 April 1954 · page 1

Last Boxing Day at about 10.30 a.m., a car, carrying six people and driven by Sydney Samuel Davies, made heavy contact with a jersey…

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Drowning Fatality at Belgrave Falls

Macleay Argus · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 1

At Belgrave Falls, yesterday afternoon,-a fourteen-year-old youth, Seargent Cooper, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leo Theodore Cooper, of Frederickton, was wading in the river when he slipped into deep water and was drowned, despite his father's heroic efforts to save him. Deceased was a member of…

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Kempsey Man in Car Accident at Uralla

Macleay Argus · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 1

Mr. John Clarke, of the S. R. Paine firm's staff, sustained a broken arm and a severe incised wound to his…

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Easter Death Roll Is 16 in Road Accidents

Macleay Argus · Monday 19 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, April 18. -- Eight people have been killed, and at least 40 injured, in Easter holiday road accidents in New South Wales -- only one death less than that recorded last Easter…

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Many Accidents In Easter Period

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Wednesday 21 April 1954 · page 1

The Easter period again brought many accidents in its wake. There was a total of nearly fifty deaths in the Commonwealth, ten of them by drowning…

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Two Injured In Wingham Road Collision

The Manning River Times and Advocate for the Northern Coast Districts of New South Wales · Friday 23 April 1954 · page 2

Two men were injured when a car and a utility collided on the Wingham Road, near Dead Dog…

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Motor Fatality at Port Macquarie

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 April 1954 · page 1

A fatal road accident occurred on Saturday afternoon, when Mrs. Rhoda Elizabeth Sippel, 45, was killed instantly as the result of a motor collision on the Pacific Highway near Port Macquarie…

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Struck by Ball Face Injured

Macleay Argus · Monday 26 April 1954 · page 2

John Chapman, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chapman, of Crescent Head Road, sustained a painful bruise…

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