An incident that took place on Golden State Freeway June 17, 1992, brought public attention to the existence of organized crime rings that stage auto accidents for insurance fraud.

Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.

25 ), Julius Caesar describes an incident at the start of his first invasion of Britain in 55 BC that illustrated how fear for the safety of the eagle could drive Roman soldiers.

An aviation incident is defined as an occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft that affects or could affect the safety of operations.

This incident forged a strong bond between Häkkinen and team principal Ron Dennis, and also sent forth a new movement for extra safety in the sport.

* Assessment and evaluation of general incident scene safety

But, this temperature indicator was not part of the " safety grade " suite of indicators designed to be used after an incident, and the operators had not been trained to use it.

Other industrial employers include the Health & Safety Laboratory, which engages in health and safety research and incident investigations and maintains over 350 staff locally.

While similar trail rides had been completed without incident in the past, Stampede officials announced they would not attempt any further rides unless they could ensure the safety of the horses.

The corporation claimed that the incident was the result of sabotage, stating that safety systems were in place and operative.

Carbide states that the safety concerns identified in 1982 were all allayed before 1984 and they had nothing to do with the incident.

On 14 December 1984, the Chairman and CEO of Union Carbide, Warren Anderson, addressed the US Congress, stressing the company's " commitment to safety " and promising to ensure that a similar incident " cannot happen again ".

The Pinto's legacy was affected by media controversy and legal cases surrounding the safety of its gas tank design ; a recall of the car in 1978 ; and a later study examining actual incident data that concluded the Pinto was as safe as, or safer than, other cars in its class.

Thus regulation designed to implement public health and safety, or serve other legitimate state interests, but impact interstate commerce as an incident to that purpose, are subject to a test akin to the rational basis test, a minimum level of scrutiny.

The Accident Investigation Board Norway, which led the investigation into the incident, made four safety recommendations, including one to the wider aviation community on operational procedures regarding discontinued approaches.

An aviation incident is defined as an occurrence, other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft that affects or could affect the safety of operations.

The Aviation Safety Reporting System ( ASRS ) collects voluntarily submitted aviation safety incident / situation reports from pilots, controllers and others.

He got up to second on the first lap and there was a safety car due to an incident in the first corner.

* 1997: The start of a fire detection system and the start of a study for automatic incident detection, centralized safety equipment management, and new variable message signs.

Three TV documentaries were also made concerning the disaster, all distributed worldwide and all concentrating on either safety aspects or the circumstances that turned what should have been a serious, but controllable incident into a disaster.

A question was asked in the House of Lords about the safety of cat's eyes in light of the highly unusual incident, and the Highways Agency conducted an investigation into the " long-term integrity and performance " of various types of road stud.

After the incident, new fire safety laws were passed for amusement park fun houses and dark rides.

Despite this, Drew Field set a safety record for the Third Air Force in 1945 after 100, 000 flying hours had been completed over a period of 10 months without a fatal incident.

* July 2010: Federal authorities captured 400 Canada geese in the park and gassed them to death for air safety reasons following the US Airways Flight 1549 incident in January 2009.

" Later that day she issued a request for federal assistance and USD $ 9 million in aid to President George W. Bush, which stated, "... I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster.

This incident sparked a major public discussion on station safety and security, mainly because the station was un-staffed when the passenger was mugged.

To one who had been a man of war from his youth, who had won and lost many fights, the rout of a detachment and the forcible seizure of some debatable frontier lands was an untoward incident ; but it was not a sufficient reason for calling upon the British, although they had guaranteed his territory's integrity, to vindicate his rights by hostilities which would certainly bring upon him a Russian invasion from the north, and would compel his British allies to throw an army into Afghanistan from the southeast.

Speleologist William Halliday argued in 1983 that the story arose from an incident in which hikers from a nearby camp had thrown rocks into the canyon.

Chaplin built a story around the idea of walking a tightrope while besieged by monkeys, which became the film's " climactic incident ", and turned The Tramp into the accidental star of a circus.

He further states that the incident brought to light Confucius ' foresight, practical political ability, and insight into human character.

Florida shut the Cubs out in Game 5, but young pitcher Mark Prior led the Cubs in Game 6 as they took a 3 – 0 lead into the 8th inning and it was at this point when a now-infamous incident took place.

There had also been other instances of disobedience prior to this, according to the official Du Parcq report into the incident such as a model prisoner attacking a popular guard with a razor blade and rough treatment of a prisoner being removed to solitary.

Interpol starts an investigation into the incident.

During this period, Banks was also involved in a notorious incident with Manchester United's George Best who, while playing against England for Northern Ireland, flicked the ball out of Banks ' hands and headed it into the net as the protesting goalkeeper chased him.

An Australian telemovie made in 1998, The Day of the Roses, describes the coronial investigation into the incident.

An incident in Decatur, Georgia where water soluble caesium-137 leaked into the source storage pool requiring NRC intervention has led to near elimination of this radioisotope ; it has been replaced by the more costly, non-water soluble cobalt-60.

* 1966 – A B-52 bomber collides with a KC-135 Stratotanker over Spain, dropping three 70-kiloton nuclear bombs near the town of Palomares and another one into the sea in the Palomares incident.

Such a transition to the higher state is called absorption, and it destroys an incident photon ( the photon's energy goes into powering the increased energy of the higher state ).

The situation escalated into a diplomatic incident between the countries as the MCC — supported by the British public and still of the opinion that their fast leg theory tactic was harmless — took serious offence at being branded " unsportsmanlike " and demanded a retraction.

Convex lenses produce an image of an object at infinity at their focus ; if the sun is imaged, much of the visible and infrared light incident on the lens is concentrated into the small image.

The incident erupted into scandal when media reported that a number of the players had performed sex acts and that prostitutes had been flown in.

Davis was supposedly embarrassed into getting clean by this incident.

The Bush administration reportedly blocked investigations into the incident.

After 1969, the New Left degenerated into radicals and moderate factions, and that same year, the Weathermen, a surviving faction of SDS, attempted to launch a guerrilla war in an incident known as the " Days of Rage.

The Lusitania incident was among the events that brought the United States into World War I.

This incident revived Newton's belief in God and, despite considerable reservations from within the established church ( it took six years to be ordained into the Church of England ), he achieved the position of priest to the village of Olney in 1764.

On December 1, an incident took place that sealed punk rock's notorious reputation: On Thames Today, an early evening London TV show, Sex Pistols guitarist Steve Jones was goaded into a verbal altercation by the host, Bill Grundy.

For example, in the two famous Kinsman Transit cases from the 2nd Circuit ( exercising admiralty jurisdiction over a New York incident ), it was clear that mooring a boat improperly could lead to the risk of a boat drifting away and crashing into another boat, and that both boats could crash into a bridge, which collapsed and blocked the river, and in turn, the wreckage could flood the land adjacent to the river, as well as prevent any traffic from traversing the river until it had been cleared.

Set during the Napoleonic Wars, it follows two French Hussar officers, D ' Hubert and Feraud ( Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel ) whose quarrel over an initially minor incident turns into a bitter extended feud spanning fifteen years, interwoven with the larger conflict that provides its backdrop.

The commander, Cesar and one other rebel were taken into custody by agents without incident after boarding the helicopter.