I'm just one fool with an opinion on the internet, but FWIW I like "collision" as a substitute for "accident" better than "crash". "Crash" connotes something s

I'm just one fool with an opinion on the internet, but FWIW I like "collision" as a substitute for "accident" better than "crash". "Crash" connotes something spectacular and would seem to exclude fender benders, while both "accident" and "collision" would include them.