People have been advocating avoiding the word accident in traffic crashes exactly for this reason: https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid

People have been advocating avoiding the word accident in traffic crashes exactly for this reason: https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accident/ https://www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accid... > It’s a crash, not an accident. End the language of denial. > I can’t help but get upset when people call a crash an accident. I lost my leg in a crash with a lorry. It was preventable – and even though the driver didn’t intend for the crash to happen, it was still his fault