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The Times
Tuesday Nov 16 1841

Coach Accident.- On Monday last a melancholy coach accident occurred on the Colne road, near Burnley. It appears that the two coaches left Skipton at the usual time on Monday last, and, as there is some rivalry on that road, they were coming into Burnley at a rapid speed, when the horses in the foremost coach became unmanageable, and went off at a frightful pace. The passengers became alarmed, and began to jump off the coach, getting more or less injured as they fell to the ground. The gentleman who sat on the box-seat, who we understand is a Manchester man, got hold of the reins with a view of assisting the coachman to pull them up, but by some means pulled their heads to the left side of the road, and ran the coach against a dead wall or house, by which both he and the coachman were precipitated against the wall with great violence. The unfortunate man was killed on the spot, and the coachman severely injured. All the outside passengers were more or less injured, except a woman and a boy, who stuck to the roof of the coach. The horses, after running for some distance after the coachman was thrown from his seat, came in contact with a heap of stones, and all fell together on the road.-Manchester Chronicle.

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The Times
Friday Feb 6 1846

Frightful Coach Accident

On Wednesday last a frightful coach-accident took place at Colne. It appears that the mid-day mail coach, leaving for Manchester, was driven at a furious rate down the hill to Primet-bridge, on the road to Burnley. On arriving at the bottom of the hill the coach lost its balance and fell over on its side with great violence, scattering the passengers about the road at considerable distances. The coachman was seriously injured in his head; a cattle dealer of the name Pilling, from Newchurch-in-Rossendale, had his thigh broken, and his shoulder dislocated; and a young woman suffered a severe concussion of the brain, a frightful cut in one knee, and was otherwise contused in her head and body. The only two other passengers escaped with slight injury. Serious blame is attached to the coachman for reckless and furious driving. - Blackburn Standard.

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