The explanation offered for her conduct is a misguided attempt to save her marriage to a neurotic husband left sterile as a result of an automobile accident.

While attending Harvard, he lost his sight in his left eye due to an accident in the boxing ring.

In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.

This expensive medical procedure left her deeply in debt, made worse when she adopted the debts of her husband ( a man who married her shortly after her surgery, then later faked his death in an automobile accident ).

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

The inquiry into the accident found that the primary cause of the crash was " the very unsatisfactory condition of the permanent way ", being the poor fastening of the track, causing the track to spread and allowing the left front wheel of the locomotive to come off the rail.

A defining incident of young Wells's life was an accident in 1874 that left him bedridden with a broken leg.

After a carriage accident in his youth, his left arm was shortened and stiffened at the elbow, while his right hand was thinner than his left and frequently hidden.

The accident almost left him paralyzed.

After a 1994 motorcycle accident shattered his left leg and kept him in the hospital for a full month, Terminator X relocated to his 15-acre farm in Vance County, North Carolina.

In several interviews given in the late 2000s, Paula claimed to have been left in debilitating pain after a 1992 car accident and a 1993 plane crash that required 15 spinal surgeries and which left her dependent on pain medication for years.

It was a fortuitous accident: in his laboratory in the basement of St. Mary's Hospital in London ( now part of Imperial College ), Fleming noticed a Petri dish containing Staphylococcus plate culture he mistakenly left open, was contaminated by blue-green mould, which formed a visible growth.

The board determined that the probable cause of the accident was that the foam impact caused a breach of a reinforced carbon-carbon panel along the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, allowing hot gases generated during re-entry to enter the wing and cause structural collapse.

The accident caused a separation of the nose cone and landing gear, partial separation of the right wing, and a bend in the left wing.

In September 1842 he lost the forefinger of his left hand in an accident while reloading a gun ; thereafter he wore a glove or finger sheath ( stall ).

While visiting San Francisco in 1982 she was involved in a traffic accident that left her with two fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis, and a punctured lung.

At the age of 17, Besson had a diving accident that left him unable to dive.

* Phineas Gage, who famously suffered an accident in 1848 which destroyed most or all of his left frontal lobe, and who is often incorrectly said to have undergone " the first lobotomy ," or ( also incorrectly ) to have inspired or influenced the development of lobotomy.

Her father had been injured during a work-related accident and was left with constant headaches which caused him to burst out in paroxysms of anger which disturbed the family.

He had a joke that he used frequently in comedy clubs about how he caused a serious accident that left a classmate using a wheelchair.

Work began, but Mr Hoare's death in a railway accident left the college £ 3000 short of his expected benefaction.

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.

* Manuel " Mannie " Garcia O ' Kelly-Davis is a native-born, slightly cynical inhabitant of Luna who, after losing his lower left arm in a laser-drilling accident, became a computer technician.

Before leaving, Ray pauses to apologize for the accident that killed Colleen and tells Graham that he trapped an alien in his pantry.

The subsequent investigation of the accident revealed that Denver resident John Gilbert Graham had secretly placed a time bomb composed of 25 sticks of dynamite in a suitcase belonging to his mother, who was a passenger on the airplane.

The novel ends with Paula wounding herself mortally with a rifle — the reader is not told explicitly whether it is suicide, as her lover Graham believes, or an accident, as she tells her husband — and convincing a doctor to inject her with an overdose of morphine.

In his autobiography, Brown said the play came about by accident in 1946 when Graham botched a play and improvised by making a late handoff to Marion Motley, who ran past the onrushing defenders for a large gain.

Barreto suffered a near-fatal injury in a car accident in Uruguay shortly afterwards and was unable to illustrate the strips for December 2006 ; as a result, Rex Morgan artist Graham Nolan did the strip for a week, and John Heebink took over the following week.

Images communicated from Justin make her fear that Graham will attempt to kill her and make it look like an accident rather than allow her to leave him knowing his secret ( a high-profile divorce, especially if she reveals the truth about what happened to their son, could ruin him ), so she hides in the attic.

Joseph Graham Mayo was killed in November 1936 in an accident when a train hit his car killing him and his hunting dog, Floosie.

A few months later, a second member of the squad, Todd Graham, was killed in a road accident whilst visiting his parents at their home in Zambia.

Drake, who had been courting Randy before the accident, marries her but is now embittered by the loss of his legs and refuses to leave his bed.

The impact with the utility pole caused a brief power failure in the immediate area of the accident.

Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

These included the Hatfield accident, caused by a rail fragmenting due to the development of microscopic cracks.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

It is argued that Tryon had attempted to introduce greater independence and initiative amongst his captains, which he believed would be essential in the confusion of a real war situation, but had ironically been killed in an accident caused by captains rigorously obeying incorrect but precise orders issued by Tryon himself.

Forgetting can mean access problems, availability problems, or can have other reasons such as amnesia caused by an accident.

It was at this time that Hawks first met Victor Fleming, allegedly when the two men raced on a dirt track and caused an accident.

" Niven says that when he asked Bogart about his scar he said it was caused by a childhood accident ; Niven claims the stories that Bogart got the scar during wartime were made up by the studios to inject glamor.

* 1973 – A fire at a house in Hull, England which kills a six year old boy is passed off as an accident ; it later emerges as the first of 26 deaths by fire caused over the next seven years by arsonist Peter Dinsdale.

" In her book Spoken from the Heart, she says that the accident caused her to lose her faith " for many, many years ".

Alleged by the Germans to have been a deliberate act, the NIOD announced in January 2005 that its study of the incident confirmed that it was an accident caused by poor communications and chaos in the airspace.

The tree comprised a cavernous trunk from which a few branches were still sprouting in 1975, when a traffic accident caused a bus to fall on and uproot it.

Enemy-related injuries which justify the award of the Purple Heart include injury caused by enemy bullet, shrapnel, or other projectile created by enemy action ; injury caused by enemy placed land mine, naval mine, or trap ; injury caused by enemy released chemical, biological, or nuclear agent ; injury caused by vehicle or aircraft accident resulting from enemy fire ; concussion injuries caused as a result of enemy generated explosions.

In the case of an individual injured while making a parachute landing from an aircraft that had been brought down by enemy fire ; or, an individual injured as a result of a vehicle accident caused by enemy fire, the decision will be made in favor of the individual and the award will be made.

In this case a bus veered across the road and it was known that the accident was caused by a flat tire.

The first step is whether the accident is the kind that would usually be caused by negligence, and the second is whether or not the defendant had exclusive control over the instrumentality that caused the accident.

The previous December, Clemente had been involved in a car accident in Puerto Rico ; over the course of the season, this caused him to miss several games with an injury in his lower back.

Built with " legacy technology ", it used a horse walking on a drive belt for power, and was withdrawn after an accident caused the horse to burst through the floor of the engine.