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.

As Lauda was wearing a modified helmet, the foam had compressed and it had slid off his head after the accident, leaving his face exposed to the fire.

He gets drunk and is involved in an accident that leaves Dorothy's face disfigured.

The Monster then confronts Bozo by grabbing him by the face and terrifies him by revealing himself as Melvin from the accident to a horrified Bozo.

In the sky above, a colossal starship with a smiley face design breaks through the roof with a transport tube and sucks up the berserk doctor and by accident, Gloria.

" So they called the doctor and had him cover my face in bandages and made it look like I had an accident.

Totò's unmistakable figure, with his peculiarly irregular face ( due to an accident in his teen years ), and his unique trademark ability to disarticulate his body like a marionette, soon became very popular and his comic gags became part of the Italian culture.

In an accident, two men " skated over the side of his face ," ending his hockey career, and seriously and permanently disfiguring him.

After a rock climbing accident mangles Tony's face, Elaine admits to Jerry that she can't date someone who isn't attractive and wonders how long she is obligated to stay with him post-accident.

He professed that he " didn't mean to do it " and that it was " an accident " as other wrestlers — fan face and heel — swarmed out to help.

DiBiase and IRS attacked Beefcake after the match and slammed his face ( which had been surgically repaired following a windsailing accident ) with a briefcase.

Feynman immediately realized that this claim was risible on its face ; as he described, this assessment of risk would entail that NASA could expect to launch a shuttle every day for the next 274 years while suffering, on average, only one accident.

It is mentioned that his last sight before crashing down and getting killed was a girl in a green bathing suit who had the same face as the Diana which he meets in the future ; it turns out that her name had been Diana, too, and that to her fell the disageeable task of finding Perry's broken body and reporting the accident.

Although law enforcement authorities initially had very few leads, police did identify two suspects ; one a University of Florida student ( Edward Humphrey ) who had a history of mental illness and bore numerous scars on his face from a car accident, making him an ideal video snip when discussing news about the investigation.

Magnum T. A., who was the promotion's top babyface and scheduled to become the new NWA Champion at Starrcade 1986, was severely injured in a car accident on October 14, 1986, and had to end his wrestling career ; Nikita Koloff turned face on October 25, 1986 and took Magnum T. A.

When she was 13 she had an accident in a factory in Italy, when her hair got caught in a machine, and she had to spend four months getting skin grafts in hospital, which left her face slightly disfigured.

While hitchhiking across the country in search of his stolen bicycle, Pee Wee ( Paul Reubens ) thumbs a ride with a female truck driver named " Large Marge " who relates to him the story of " the worst accident I ever seen ," which concludes with Marge's face contorting very ghoulishly.

A severe road accident in 1909 ( age 16 )— he was run over by a horse-drawn cart, then kicked in the face by the horse — and the contraction of typhoid in 1910 ( age 17 ) seem to mark a turning point in Fallada's life and the end of his relatively care-free youth.

At the same age, Rajoy was injured in the face following a traffic accident.

He became the first Labour MP in the Wyre Forest for many years but lost his seat when he supported changes to the accident and emergency services at Kidderminster General Hospital in the face of public opposition.

Mysliveček's explanation for his condition to Wolfgang -- bone cancer caused by a carriage accident — is on the face of it preposterous.

An accident with a spray can caused severe burns, resulting in scars that now mar her face.

In 1999, a car accident with David Hayward ( Vincent Irizarry ) leaves Erica's face disfigured.

This storyline unintentionally mirrored a similar car accident Lucci was involved in, in 1966 which almost permanently scarred her face.

When the little boy walks away from the accident, she assumes he is all right, but never learns of the fatal consequences, or the harassment his parents, Howard ( Bruce Davison ) and Ann Finnigan ( Andie MacDowell ), must face from the local baker ( Lyle Lovett ) who is livid because Casey's birthday cake was never picked up.