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Northern Rivers · Accidents

Accidents, 1948

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Lucky Escape For Man In Road Collision

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 1

A man had a lucky escape from serious injury when the car he was driving struck a 'bus and turned over [?]n the Geneva Road on Friday…

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Injured Man's Amazing Fortitude Casino Road Smash: Trapped For Two Hours In Wrecked Truck Cabin

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 1

An Ambulance officer told of the amazing fortitude a Kyogle man displayed when he was trapped for two hours in the wrecked cabin of a utility truck which crashed head-on with another truck on the Kyogle-Casino road, about five miles from Kyogle, yesterday morning…

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Young Grevillia Man Killed In Mill Accident

The Kyogle Examiner · Tuesday 3 February 1948 · page 1

George Ackland Hall, 20 sawyer, died in Casino Hospital on Saturday from injuries he received on Friday afternoon when a piece of wood flew…

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Head-on Collision on Bexhill Road Cyclists Seriously Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 4

Two men were seriously injured when the motor cycle they were riding was mangled in a head-on collision with a…

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Woman Cyclist Injured

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 2

Mrs Mary Hall, wife of Mr L. Hall, of Clothier's Creek, yesterday morning received abrasions to the face, right shoulder and left…

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Injured When Cars Collide

Tweed Daily · Thursday 5 February 1948 · page 2

Mrs Holm, a resident of Billinudgel, received injuries to her mouth when the car in which she was travelling to Mullumbimby…

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Injured Man's Condition Improved

The Kyogle Examiner · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 1

A spokesman at Kyogle Memorial Hospital said yesterday afternoon that the condition of Patrick Constable had improved…

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Accident Victims "Satisfactory"

Northern Star · Friday 6 February 1948 · page 4

The condition of Angelo Baldo and Paul Griffani, who were seriously injured when their motor-cycle and a car collided head-on at Lismore…

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Australia 3-336 In Fifth Test: (37) Bradman (57) Retired Injured

Northern Star · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 1

MELBOURNE, Friday.--Playing what may prove to be his last first class cricket innings in Australia, Australian Test captain Don Bradman was forced to retire with a torn rib muscle in the fifth Test against India today, when be was 57…

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L. G. Squelch Killed in Car Accident

Tweed Daily · Saturday 7 February 1948 · page 2

Word has been received in Mullumbimby that Mr. Leslie Gordon Squelch was killed in a car accident in Sydney on…

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Harbor Collision; 10 Thrown into Waters Infested with Sharks

Tweed Daily · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: Five men and five women were thrown from a launch into the shark-infested waters of Middle Harbor near The Spit this afternoon, when the show boat, Kalang, and the launch collided…

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Two Accidents at Week-end

Northern Star · Monday 9 February 1948 · page 4

Norma Geoghegan, daughter of Mr. M. W. Geoghegan, of Rhodes Street, South Lismore, was treated for a sprained ankle by Lismore…

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Girl Injured by Motor Car

Northern Star · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 5

BALLINA, Monday. -- Enid Merle Cheadle, 20, of 372 River Street, Ballina, was slightly injured when knocked down by a car last night…

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Mill Fatality Regulation Type Guard Not Installed

Northern Star · Tuesday 10 February 1948 · page 4

CASINO, Monday. -- If the regulation-type of sawbench guard had been installed this fatality would not have occurred, said the…

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Two Injured; Explosion of Chemicals

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 2

SYDNEY, Tuesday: A street photographer arid his woman assistant were critically injured today at Wagga when chemicals…

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Two Hurt in Motor-Gycle Accident

Tweed Daily · Wednesday 11 February 1948 · page 2

When the lights failed on a motor cycle on which they were travelling during a rainstorm late on…

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Ship in Minefield After Collision

Tweed Daily · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 3

TOKIO, Wednesday: Two Japanese coastal ships collided today in the Inland Sea, leaving one drifting helplessly in a…

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Plane Crashed Into Trees: One Injured

Northern Star · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 1

BRISBANE, Wednesday. -- When making a forced landing today a Lockheed plane crashed into trees and the wings, motors and tail…

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Country Aided War on Accidents

Tweed Daily · Thursday 12 February 1948 · page 4

Faced with an increase of 24 per cent in the nu[?]er of persons killed in road acoidents at the beginning of 1947, the Road…

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Thee Children Injured

Northern Star · Friday 13 February 1948 · page 4

Three children were injured in accidents in Lismore yesterday. They were Alan John Wilson, 4, of Anstey Street, Lismore; Eric…

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