Early in my long-past journalism career I reported on a collision between two cars. One of the drivers complained because she seemed to think I implied she was

Early in my long-past journalism career I reported on a collision between two cars. One of the drivers complained because she seemed to think I implied she was at fault. My editor told me to ignore the complaint, since the word "collision" merely says that two objects tried to occupy the same space at the same time, and no fault is implied by the language.