What is an isolated incident?

Question

i never fully knew the meaning of the phrase

Answer 1

Happened once...not a part of a pattern.

Answer 2

Something that happened only once, or separate from anything else. For example, someone ran a red light but has never broken any other laws prior to this. Running the red light (the offense) is an isolated incident.

Answer 3

Its something that very rarely happens

Answer 4

An Isolated Incident is like a chemical spill...

Answer 5

Something that just happened once and was not part of a pattern or linked to other incidents.

For example, someone was shot, but it was an isolated incident.  Nobody else was shot, and it wasn't linked to another crime in the area.  It just happened that once.

isolated - on its own, cut off

incident - thing that happened