The phrase "accident point" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in contexts related to traffic or safety, referring to a location where accidents frequently occur.
Example: "The city has decided to install additional signage at the accident point to improve safety for drivers and pedestrians."
Alternatives: "accident location" or "collision site".
The Birmingham accident points up the dangers posed by keeping stocks of smallpox virus without arrangements for maximum security.
BP has said the disaster was not "our accident," pointing out that it happened on a rig managed by Transocean, a deepwater specialist.
The inquiry will be told how Alison Forster, Great Western's operations safety director, wrote to Railtrack 14 months before the accident pointing out that she had noticed that there had been another signal passed at danger incident (spad) at signal 109.
The commission has said that inspections after the accident pointed to corrosion that apparently weakened a U-shaped bend in one thin-walled tube within the generator, allowing radioactive water to burst through to surrounding clean water, which caused a radioactive leak.
In particular, genome-wide association studies using adult sporadic thyroid cancers and Belarusian cases aged 0 18 years at the time of the accident pointed out that a common single nucleotide polymorphism marker, rs965513, located in the FOXE1 vicinity at chromosome 9q22.33 showed a strong correlation with both sporadic and radiation-related thyroid cancer.
The scientific evidence accumulated since the accident points clearly to a substantial increase in thyroid cancer among those exposed as children (Cardis et al. 2005; Ivanov et al. 2006; Jacob et al. 1999; Likhtarov et al. 2006; Tronko et al. 2006b).
Despite these measures, a number of recent accidents point to the continued need to improve process safety.
A study on road accidents points out to human error as the cause of more than 90% of the accidents.
