I decide not to ask what appalling accident has befallen that.
Her beloved father had recently been killed in an appalling accident in the garden as he adjusted a lawn mower.
"The third world is all about tiny margins of profit," he writes after careering around in Kenya with the drivers of matatus — private minibuses with appalling accident rates.
SMYRNA — A whole battalion of Ottoman troops was practically wiped out in an appalling accident at Ephesus station, on the Aidan Railway, yesterday [Oct. 21].
But Sunday's appalling accident at a Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus performance in Providence, Rhode Island was real, and it did send 11 members of the troupe to the hospital.
The film's critical moment comes when the Austrian Niki Lauda, driving a Ferrari, then the current Formula One world champion and competing with Britain's James Hunt for the 1976 championship, has an appalling accident at the epically dangerous Nürburgring mountain track in Germany.
This last episode was deemed unsatisfying by many, a MacGuffin to wrap up the strands, but to my mind it worked: an appalling accident is what it baldly was, and fates often twist on such meaningless coincidences, but – oof – how writers Harry and Jack Williams worked to put us through the emotional treadmill by spotlighting every nuance of all the very personal ramifications.
The coroner ruled it was an "appalling accident" and said she would be writing to Transport for London to encourage an "innovative response" to the problems at the narrow and busy road junction where the front of the lorry collided with the rear wheel of the bicycle.
The German world champion felt that the formula one drivers should pay their collective respects in recognition of the terror attacks, as well as marking the appalling accident in which Alex Zanardi lost his legs at the Lausitzring the previous day and the incident after the start of last year's Monza race which cost a track marshal his life.
For all the professional smirks generated by Denning's famous opening line in a judgment about an appalling motor accident ("It was bluebell time in Kent"), this accessibility of language was the rock on which his popularity and influence were built.
