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I don’t know whether the term accident has a new-found popularity, or whether I’m just more sensitive to it the last week, but it seems like everywhere I look in the news media, there it is, the term accident. I’m talking here about use for motor vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians.
The term accident implies that no one was at fault, it just happened, an act of nature. But nothing that occurs on the roadways is an accident. Someone caused it, or someone contributed to it.
#NotAnAccident (yes, I realize that this twitter tag gets used for other things, but I haven’t thought of a better one)
I have been using the term crash in place of accident for several years. However, several people have commented that crash may be more appropriate to a single user situation, as in, the car crashed into a tree, or the bicyclist crashed on slippery pavement. The word collision implies two or more users, as in, a collision between a motor vehicle and a bicycle or pedestrian. But I’m not yet entirely happy with those definitions either. Incident has also been suggested, but that seems to clinical to me, almost a valueless opposite of accident.
Here are some links:
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Note: It is often not clear in these news reports whether the incident has anything to do with the mode of travel, of if any of the fault lies with the victim. Investigations take months, and the results are rarely reported in the media. So, sometimes I pass these items along, and sometimes I don’t.
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