I had leave for four weeks then spent a couple of weeks in Bathurst working at the Bathurst 1000. Now that I am back, I will try and summarise your local police activities whilst I was away, at least for the last couple of weeks anyway.

The last couple of weeks have seen quite a few people have, thankfully, minor accidents within town. In every case, the accidents have happened because people weren’t paying attention.

On the 17th of September in Maybe Street, one vehicle ran up the back of a stationary vehicle near Bright Street. The stationary vehicle was waiting to turn into a driveway.

On the 9th of September two vehicles collided in the main street after a misunderstanding about reversing, and last Friday, a vehicle travelling along Forbes Street failed to give way to another vehicle travelling along Wellington Street, and they met in the middle of the intersection.

Only minor damage was occasioned to all vehicles involved in the accidents; however Police urge everyone behind the wheel of a car to be vigilant and stay focussed. Next time we might not be so lucky.

On the 9th of October a semi trailer laden with hay bales came to grief on the Snowy Mountains Highway near Steeple Flat after a car overtook the truck, then cut in front of the semi and slammed the brakes on. The poor semi driver had to take evasive action to avoid running over the top of the car and ended up in an embankment.

A number of cases of theft and malicious damage relating to heavy machinery have been received over the last couple of weeks with diesel being stolen from logging machinery in the Coolungubrah State Forest between the 10th and 12th of October.

On the 2nd of October, or thereabouts, someone broke into a State Forest truck in Jonas Street and stole two UHF radios that are clearly identified as belonging to the NSW State Forests. Attempts were also made to steal fuel from this truck, however those attempts were in vain.