check some usage notes on your use of "accident"[0] > Risk management and risk mitigation experts (such as actuaries, systems engineers, and others) generally

check some usage notes on your use of "accident"[0] > Risk management and risk mitigation experts (such as actuaries, systems engineers, and others) generally do not approve of calling motor vehicle crashes (MVCs) "accidents", because they advisedly reserve that term for things not directly caused by human recklessness or negligence. Because it is predictably obvious (and directly causal) that distracted driving (e.g., texting, IMing/DMing, videogaming, or intoxication while driving) produces MVCs, those MVCs are not "accidents". Nonetheless, among the general public, MVCs are quite often called "accidents" rather than "crashes" or "collisions", not only by idiomatic inertia but also because connotatively, it steers clear of broaching the topic of blame assignment, whereas a phrase like "he crashed" connotes blame. There's also a relevant twitter reply concerning intent[1] > On the part of the individual drivers, it was accidental. > > On the part of the city, it was deliberate - they built an unsafe road, they can see the statistics - it's so unsafe that TV news crews come to talk about how dangerous it is - and they don't fix it. (final edit) We know how to fix the roads - there's a large body of evidence showing the "Complete Streets" approach (bollards, lane reductions, et cetera) works. [0] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accident#Usage_notes https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accident#Usage_notes [1] https://twitter.com/DragonfrogMog/status/1502316785583808514 https://twitter.com/DragonfrogMog/status/1502316785583808514