The phrase "a recent incident" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
Example: "The company's reputation has been tarnished by a recent incident of embezzlement."
Recently I met someone who shared with me a recent incident that happened while they were in the Tenderloin.
A recent incident may shed some light.
Ms. Cassetta told of a recent incident when she was on the elevator with Ulysses and his father.
But a recent incident suggests that even lame duck presidents hoping their running mates succeed them have egos.
One glitch in the matrix that portends larger things was revealed in a recent incident with Google's self-driving car.
After a recent incident in Manchester, he thinks he might now actually be better known for his musical tastes.
One was a recent incident in Miami, where a flight was canceled after passengers booed the late-arriving crew.
In a recent incident when the paper was considering coverage of a murder, the Zetas kidnapped two reporters.
In a recent incident, India expelled an officer from the Pakistani embassy after accusing him of being a spy.
Officials say terrorist threats have been directed at the Xinjiang leg, and a recent incident in Beijing's Tiananmen Square has been blamed on Uighur "terrorists" (see article).
The writer still bears the scars of a recent incident resulting from the conjunction of the 2 cliches, that women talk too much, & husbands never listen.
