For example in the Netherlands, the law assumes the stronger participant ( e. g. a car driver ) is liable in the case of an accident with a weaker participant ( e. g. a cyclist ) unless it can be proved that the cyclist's behavior could not have been expected.

The driver may have a defense to those allegations, perhaps if the accident occurred at low speed, and was unavoidable ( maybe due to some third party intervention ).

As an example of this situation, one can think of an American court applying British tort statutes and case law to a car accident that took place in London where both the driver and the victim are British citizens but the lawsuit was brought in before the American courts because the driver's insurer is American.

* 12-Roger Freeman, 51, British rally driver, motor race accident.

* 12-Mark Lovell, 43, British rally driver, motor race accident.

The first stage of the Intifada began following an incident at the Erez checkpoint where four Palestinian residents of the Jabalya refugee camp were killed in a traffic accident involving an Israeli driver.

* May 8 – Gilles Villeneuve, Canadian race car driver ( racing accident ) ( b. 1950 )

* May 15 – Gordon Smiley, American race car driver ( racing accident ) ( b. 1946 )

* February 25 – In an accident at Grove Hill, Harrow, London, England, Edwin Sewell becomes the world's first driver of a petrol-driven vehicle to be killed ; his passenger, Maj. James Richer, dies of injuries three days later .< ref >

If a purchaser of car insurance policy is involved in an accident wherein the liability for the accident is undisputedly of their insured driver, then the insurance carrier has the duty to indemnify their insured driver in very specific ways to make them " whole " again.

The same description of the car's driver was also given by the president of the Board of Education, H. Wallace Caldwell, who had also witnessed the accident.

The drunk driver of the van, Robert Cato, was sentenced to a three-year prison term for drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter in the accident.

In Formula One, driver input is also recorded so the team can assess driver performance and ( in case of an accident ) the FIA can determine or rule out driver error as a possible cause.

In 1986 Formula One driver Elio de Angelis was killed in a testing accident at the fast first turn, and the circuit was modified in order to make it safer.

The film also captured a car accident in which Lopes was a passenger and her assistant was the driver: " It was dark when the car driven by Lopes's assistant left the village.

Went on to become an Indy Racing League driver before a testing accident paralyzed him and ended his driving career, later starting Sam Schmidt Motorsports, a successful Firestone Indy Lights championship-winning team, and the Sam Schmidt Paralysis Foundation.

When the author of the crime had no animus nocendi, it is usually considered that the crime still exists, but the author is innocent, unless a responsibility for guilt can be found in his conduct: the typical case of a car accident in which a wrong or even hazardous manoeuvre causes personal injuries to another car driver, is then managed as a crime for the presence of injuries, yet the author will not be prosecuted as the author of the injuries ( he did not want to hurt the other driver, thus he had no animus nocendi ), but simply as the author of a dangerous conduct that indirectly caused said effects, and would be held responsible at a guilt title.

Orin then orders one of his truck drivers to arrange an " accident " by running him off the road, but Taggert escapes alive while the driver is killed.

Braille is named after its creator, Frenchman Louis Braille, who went blind following a childhood accident.

The first book of Lewis's Space Trilogy, a rare example of theological science fiction, it features a philologist named Ransom who arrives by accident on Mars ( called Malacandra by the natives ).

Another tale tells of a man named Wu Liang ( later corrupted to Wu Long, or Oolong ) who discovered oolong tea by accident when he was distracted by a deer after a hard day's tea-picking, and by the time he remembered to return to the tea it had already started to oxidize.

His first wife, Patricia, for whom his second daughter would eventually be named, was killed in a car accident when her car went under a tractor / trailer unit.

The initial surface of the new track, named Autódromo de Lourenço Marques did not provide enough grip and an accident in the late 1960s killed 8 people and injured many more.

According to his own declarations, he became friendly with a wealthy trader named Henry Hope Stanley, by accident: he saw Stanley sitting on a chair outside his store and asked him if he had any job opening for a person such as himself.

Later, a transporter accident fused Tuvok and Neelix together into a new humanoid appropriately named " Tuvix ".

A character in M-G-M cartoons, a bulldog named Spike, whose puppy son was always getting caught by accident in the middle of Tom and Jerry's activities, referenced Durante with a raspy voice and an affectionate " Dat's my boy!

Her best friend, a younger boy named Johnny who lived in her building, burned to death in her presence after an accident.

The new airfield was dedicated on 31 May 1935 and named in honor of Lt Col Horace Meek Hickam, a distinguished aviation pioneer who was killed in an aircraft accident the previous November 5 when his Curtiss A-12 Shrike, 33-250, hit an obstruction during night landing practice on the unlighted field at Fort Crockett in Galveston, Texas and overturned.

Sophie was named after her father's sister, Helen, who died in a riding accident more than a decade before Sophie was born.

The common retelling that it was at exactly the same site as Duane's death is incorrect, as is the legend that the Eat a Peach album is named for what was being carried by the truck involved in Allman's accident.

The 50 ft telescope was demolished in 1982, when it was replaced with a more accurate telescope named the " 42 ft " following an accident that irreparably damaged the 50 ft telescope's surface.

The program and award were named for Malcolm Baldrige, who served as United States Secretary of Commerce during the Reagan administration, from 1981 until Baldrige ’ s 1987 death in a rodeo accident.

She was also once sued by a Chinese deliveryman named Ping for causing him to get in a bicycle accident in " The Virgin ".

It was named after Walter R. Taliaferro, a U. S. Army aviator who had been killed in an accident.

Julie believes the man they hit was named David Egan, because a newspaper article a few weeks after the accident mentioned his body washing up on shore.

Surtees dropped him after that year as he did not get along well with the Aussie, and Jones was racing in America when the Shadow team named him as a replacement for Tom Pryce, who had been killed in a freak racing accident in South Africa.

In 1933, the regime was recast and renamed Estado Novo (" New State "), and Oliveira Salazar was named as President of the Council of Ministers until 1968, when he suffered a stroke following a domestic accident.

A young musician and singer named Johnny ( played by Jasper Steverlinck, singer of Belgian rock band Arid ) has been notified by a law firm that his mother ( voiced by Kyoko Baertsoen, leader of another Belgian band, Lunascape ), an aging rock star whom Johnny hasn't seen or heard from since he was 3 years old, has died in a helicopter accident.

As announced, the story introduces " a diminutive hound named Shoeshine gets superpowers after a lab accident.

Williams building was named after Gerry Bertier, a member of the Titans ' 1971 state championship football team who was paralyzed in a car crash and died 10 years later in a second auto accident near Charlottesville, VA.

It was named after Moshe Aviv, the owner of the construction company, who died in an accident in October 2001, before its completion.

An athletic building is named for him, the library for his mother, the law school for his father, and the basketball teams ' home, Matthew Knight Arena, is named for his late son, who died in a SCUBA diving accident.