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You’re fighting a losing battle. The issue is the legal / insurance context. For legal purposes the critical distinction is accident or intentional. “Accident”
by tiahura 5y ago
You’re fighting a losing battle. The issue is the legal / insurance context.
For legal purposes the critical distinction is accident or intentional. “Accident” doesn’t necessarily mean act of god, or unpreventable, it just means it wasn’t intentional.
- riffic 5y agogo swing a bat around in a crowd, you can say it was an oopsie if you were to hit someone.
- tiahura 5y agoThat’s still an accident. The law says if it was done with reckless indifference for safety of other, then you may be subject to increased penalties, but it still wasn’t intentional.
- giantg2 5y agoAgree, yet most people do not understand the distinction. Changing the word in colloquial use could make people attentive by removing the rampant misinterpreted connotation that it was unpreventable.
- nerdponx 5y agoThen let's keep the term "accident" confined to insurance documents in the context of assigning blame/fault, and call it a "collision" everywhere else.
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