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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
accident
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car crash/accident (also a car wreck American English)
▪ He was involved in a car crash.
a road accident
▪ Her husband was killed in a road accident.
a serious accident
▪ He is recovering from a serious accident.
a traffic accident
▪ He’s been involved in a traffic accident.
accident and emergency
accident blackspot (=where there are a lot of road accidents)
▪ an accident blackspot
accident insurance
▪ You also get free travel accident insurance if you pay for your tickets with a credit card.
accident prone
an accident inquiry
▪ The accident inquiry revealed that the accident had been caused by human error.
an accident/crash victim
▪ The crash victims were rushed to hospital.
cause an accident
▪ 75% of accidents are caused by speeding.
crime/accident/fire etc prevention
▪ Effective crime prevention must be our main goal.
▪ a fire prevention officer
fatal accident/illness/injury etc
▪ a fatal climbing accident
▪ If it is not treated correctly, the condition can prove fatal be fatal.
freak accident
▪ He was crushed to death in a freak accident.
horrific crash/accident/attack etc
▪ a horrific plane crash
industrial accident/injury (=happening at work)
involved in an accident (=he is one of the people in an accident)
▪ I’m afraid your son’s been involved in an accident.
nasty accident
▪ He had a nasty accident while riding in the forest.
prevention of accidents
▪ Educating new drivers is important for the prevention of accidents.
unfortunate accident
▪ an unfortunate accident
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fatal
▪ Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.
▪ In these early days a flying career was not particularly attractive in view of the frequency of fatal accidents.
▪ Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated.
▪ An exhaust leak from an O-ring seal in a right booster motor was blamed for the fatal 1986 Challenger accident.
▪ The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.
▪ None of the eight other fatal accidents claimed by the villagers has been recognised by the government.
▪ Forty-five percent of fatal road accidents involving young people are alcohol-linked, and so are drowning and deaths from accidental overdose.
▪ Blaming terracing alone for the tragedy is rather like banning cars after a fatal accident.
freak
▪ It had been a freak accident.
▪ Call it a freak accident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.
▪ In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.
▪ My parents had died when I was five, in a freak car accident.
▪ Six years ago Stephen Dent was paralysed in a freak accident.
▪ I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freak accident.
▪ Apparently nobody was injured in this freak accident.
▪ Betty beheaded by hotpot ladle in freak accident. 2.
horrific
▪ William Bird's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver.
▪ She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years, her head full of horrific accidents.
industrial
▪ Is the company improving its industrial accident record?
▪ You had an industrial accident but it was never treated as one.
▪ This scheme was replaced in 1946 by a state scheme for victims of industrial accidents and prescribed industrial diseases.
▪ I wondered if he was gingerly admitting that his plant had a problem with industrial accidents.
▪ The rate of industrial accidents was horrific.
▪ They are the victims of auto accidents, industrial accidents, falls from cliffs, fires, fights, stabbings, shootings.
▪ The waste is the most toxic remains of the industrial accident at Seveso in 1976.
▪ The only place where official statistics have been released for industrial accidents is Shenzhen.
major
▪ By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
▪ No major accidents occurred in Tempe or Mesa during the outage, police said.
▪ Earlier this month the MoD repeated its claim that transporters are designed to withstand major accidents.
▪ If it is a major accident to a wide bodied jet he could send them all.
▪ Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board.
▪ The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
▪ This reflects an aversion which is attached by society to major accidents or dread consequences, e.g. cancer.
nuclear
▪ There's been a nuclear accident, savvy?
▪ On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
▪ By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
▪ Likewise, the scare associated with the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion.
▪ As had happened in previous nuclear accidents, the operators misread the situation.
▪ Life goes on, despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
▪ First and most significant is the possibility of some kind of nuclear war or accident that would destroy the human race.
serious
▪ But it could mean the difference between financial security and financial disaster for you and your family should a serious accident strike.
▪ The reason is that serious accidents are so infrequent, safety experts said.
▪ According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur.
▪ He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while.
▪ Subsequently, a serious accident at the company's water-theme park in Surrey had a detrimental effect on its public profile.
▪ But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage.
▪ But serious accidents can and do happen every day of the year.
tragic
▪ Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.
▪ The jury saw this case exactly as it is: It was a tragic accident, not a murder.
▪ Was this the moment to ask about Emily's brother, Tom, and the tragic accident?
▪ I have no reason to believe at this time that this was anything more than a terribly tragic accident.
▪ Coroner David Gibbons said he was satisfied that Mr Pollards death was was a tragic accident.
▪ If that is acceptable, why not create a clone of a child who was lost in a tragic accident?
▪ It's a very tragic accident.
▪ The biggest incident in which he has been involved was tragic double fatal accident in which two young girls died.
unfortunate
▪ He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
▪ Since the unfortunate accident to your father, I have had the strangest presentiments concerning you, at times.
▪ Although thousands of children are killed or injured each year in unfortunate accidents, something made this case special.
▪ Last Friday's unfortunate accident left the club with no alternative.
▪ It was a very unfortunate accident.
■ NOUN
auto
▪ Look, no one wants to be involved in an auto accident.
▪ In 1996, 345 people were killed in auto accidents in Nevada, up from 310 in 1995.
▪ The auto accident is the most absurd of all adversary proceedings.
▪ For this reason a number of states have adopted no-fault systems for settling personal injury claims arising from auto accidents.
▪ Something like 40,000 people are killed in auto accidents every year.
▪ This time it was Alderman Wagner, in an auto accident.
▪ The auto accident occurred in 1986 and left her in a coma for three days with a ruptured aorta and damaged liver.
automobile
▪ Killed last year in an automobile accident.
▪ After an automobile accident, Sayegh, had the red truck repainted.
▪ Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.
▪ Her neck was broken in an automobile accident 13 years ago.
▪ This young guy has an automobile accident - they take him to hospital - his wife breaks down and cries.
▪ Von Halem is recovering from an automobile accident.
car
▪ Louise Davies, 23, from Bootle, lost her son Peter in 1990 in a car accident.
▪ She had no more car accidents.
▪ Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago.
▪ Their concert also honors late bassist and composer Sean Kelly Ball, who was killed in a car accident on February 28.
▪ In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident.
▪ Others noted that his mental condition had deteriorated two years ago, when he was in a serious car accident.
▪ An obvious example would be a painting called Bald Eagle, made in 1955, one year before the car accident.
▪ There had been two car accidents.
investigation
▪ The Department of Transport's marine accident investigation branch has started an inquiry.
▪ I expect shortly to receive reports from the marine accident investigation branch of a number of recent fishing vessel accidents.
▪ There remain the specialists who look after the flight recorder side of aircraft accident investigation.
▪ Air accident investigations will take months.
▪ There are 30 courses dedicated to specific safety issues, such as handling portable gas cylinders, food hygiene and accident investigation procedures.
▪ The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner.
▪ The wreckage was then taken to the air accident investigation unit at Farnborough.
prevention
▪ After all our lectures, they still don't think accident prevention applies to them.
▪ A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
rate
▪ In recent years, the pedestrian accident rate for children has improved relative to that for adults.
▪ There are so few accidents that comparing accident rates is not statistically valid.
▪ Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
▪ But all of this may do little to dent the accident rate.
▪ Mr Riley, for Bioplan, said the accident rate on Hollyhurst Road was lower than the national average.
▪ But what we found was that that was the point when the accident rate began to go up.
▪ So what are greater congestion, higher accident rates, and worse air pollution compared to the freedom to drive?
▪ Blot said the upgrade has sliced Harrier accident rates in half.
report
▪ The accident reports had been kept secret.
▪ Photographs, a sketch plan and any police accident report book are receivable in evidence at trial.
▪ Study the airline accident reports and you will realise the truth of this.
▪ But from now on, whenever I read an accident report, I shall be slightly less blasé.
▪ Health and safety Executive's five year fatal accident report gives rise for concern.
road
▪ Death crash: A man died last night following a road accident between Brompton and Darlington.
▪ One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
▪ It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents perannum, many more than road accidents.
▪ Normally you see these kinds of injuries with victims of road accidents.
▪ Rose lost the use of her legs in a road accident 15 years ago.
▪ In 1990, 13 people were killed and 922 injured in 739 road accidents.
▪ A total of nine hundred and thirty eight road accidents happened between January and June.
traffic
▪ Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.
▪ Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident.
▪ S., for example, there are 1, 844, 000 alcohol-related traffic accidents a year.
▪ Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside.
▪ And the second story that night was all about a one-car traffic accident, with sketchy details about injuries.
▪ Consider the problems of traffic accidents more closely.
▪ Emergency admissions as a result of road traffic accidents or falls on icy pavements can not be arranged.
victim
▪ He had seen similar symptoms before on road accident victims.
▪ At Advanced Tissue, research has focused on replacement parts for accident victims or other patients.
▪ It's a message echoed by doctors and accident victims alike, as Kim Barnes reports.
▪ The Cosbys are getting a dose of what families of homicide and fatal accident victims get routinely.
▪ Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.
▪ Outside, a small but determined lobby of supporters, including the first accident victim to be saved by the air ambulance.
▪ It features actress Denise Douglas, 18, as a hideously injured road accident victim.
▪ The previous transplants had come from accident victims and were rejected within days.
■ VERB
cause
▪ They're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents.
▪ However, its only motion is to rotate, so it can hardly have caused the accident.
▪ Daytime drowsiness and associated sleep disorders can affect the quality of your life and can cause accidents, especially among drivers.
▪ They caused lethal accidents, made noises at the wrong time, and froze when action was required.
▪ In fact I cause a car accident by obstructing some one's driveway.
▪ Human deaths from snake bites are caused mainly by accident.
▪ Scooter Hire Most holiday injuries we see are caused by scooter accidents.
▪ Loss or damage caused by accidents is not generally included, though you may be able to claim under some other section.
die
▪ A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.
▪ On February 11, 1988, their eldest child, Nicky, died in a motorcycle accident.
▪ Perhaps, in an exceptional year, several might, or a few may replace brothers or sisters who die by accident.
▪ His father died in a hunting accident during the war.
▪ And many more died from accidents.
▪ A son had died in a highway accident and the other daughter lived in Califor-nia.
▪ New Jersey passed a law requiring helmets for scooter riders after a 6-year-old died following an accident.
follow
▪ The end of the Mille Miglia came in 1957, following an accident which resulted in the loss of 13 lives.
▪ Death crash: A man died last night following a road accident between Brompton and Darlington.
▪ Repairs Please contact us following any accident damage to your caravan.
▪ A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers.
▪ We will also insure you in the same way following an accident involving any trailer while attached to your motor cycle.
▪ She has needed four brain operations following the accident on the town's Berwick Hills estate.
▪ It was Friday morning, following the accident.
happen
▪ That this should happen is no accident according to Modigliani and Miller.
▪ Such communities do not happen by accident.
▪ In most cases, what happened was an accident.
▪ It does not happen by accident.
▪ If it had happened in a car accident and had been some one else's fault, perhaps I would've been bitter.
▪ Herbert 92X refused to accept a plea bargain, since he regarded what had happened as an accident.
injure
▪ No one was injured in the accident on the A684 at Scruton crossroads.
▪ More children are killed or seriously injured by vehicle accidents and being unrestrained than any other childhood accident that can be prevented.
▪ Time allowed 00:22 Read in studio Four people have been injured in an accident in thick fog.
▪ Schumacher was not injured in the accident and climbed out of the cockpit unassisted.
▪ In 1990, 13 people were killed and 922 injured in 739 road accidents.
▪ The plaintiff's husband was injured in an accident at work.
▪ The aunt, possibly, of a girl who had been injured in the accident.
▪ The two-year-old tabby was horrifically injured in a road accident.
involve
▪ Women hurt: Two women were taken to hospital after their car was involved in an accident in Easington Road, Hartlepool.
▪ Mark John Haugo was involved in a near-fatal accident in 1990 that has left him handicapped.
▪ He could have been involved in an accident.
▪ Look, no one wants to be involved in an auto accident.
▪ A van driver involved in the accident has been charged with causing death by careless driving.
▪ Michelle Howard has spent her legal career helping clients involved in medical accidents.
▪ Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable, and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection.
▪ The vehicle was involved in an accident in which the plaintiff's van was damaged.
kill
▪ There is a one-in-328 chance of an employee being killed in accident while working on the nation's farms.
▪ Their concert also honors late bassist and composer Sean Kelly Ball, who was killed in a car accident on February 28.
▪ For he was not killed in a car accident.
▪ Brad Joss, civil engineer, killed in a vehicle accident in Sonoma County on Jan. 4, 1994.
▪ Her 32-year-old partner, Nas, was killed in a motorcycle accident on 10 July, 1998.
▪ They were two of three snowboarders killed in accidents in the Lake Tahoe area in just one week.
▪ I mean, a whopping 82 per cent of people who were killed in car accidents had not been smoking cannabis.
meet
▪ This will mentioned a child that would be born later; this was Oliver, the child you met later by accident.
▪ Ian Barnes, Jessie's cousin, had also gone to Social Services that day and they met by accident.
▪ And the girl comes to see me - has been comin' ever since I met with the accident last year.
▪ You're going to meet with an accident, Mr Chan, and so is your son.
▪ Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street.
▪ But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there.
▪ Was it in there that she met with her accident?
occur
▪ Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.
▪ She had been sitting in the first row near center ice Wednesday night when the accident occurred.
▪ These refer to victims of road accidents occurring throughout Lothian and not necessarily in the eligible areas themselves.
▪ When an accident occurs, the county comes along the next day and grades the road.
▪ According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur.
▪ On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
▪ With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred.
▪ The accident occurred Saturday on a little-used mountain road full of dangerous curves.
prevent
▪ Now safety experts are targetting hundreds of companies to prevent accidents and deaths in the workplace.
▪ Air bags are 100 % effective in preventing injuries due to accidents.
▪ Obviously knowledge as well as self-discipline is necessary to prevent accidents and maintain a safe environment.
▪ Caltrans officials say the project will help prevent passing-related accidents on the two-lane mountain road.
▪ Planning does not prevent useful accidents.
▪ To prevent any such accident, the king ordered that no flax or hemp should ever come into his castle.
▪ But this small orange box produced by a Thame company could help prevent such accidents in the future.
reduce
▪ It was expected that identifying and resurfacing slippery roads would reduce skidding accidents by 1800 a year.
▪ But the farm did make some changes in picking practices to reduce accidents.
▪ He said the buses would cut air pollution and reduce sheep deaths from accidents with cars.
▪ And the question of efficiency, whether imposing such liability would reduce accidents or contribute to a more efficient use of resources.
▪ One of the aims of this proposal would be to reduce the number of accidents at work involving young people.
▪ We believe we can reduce accidents by using this equipment.
▪ The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chapter of accidents
▪ Such a chapter of accidents, however ridiculous in modern eyes, epitomised a genuinely important aspect of international relations.
▪ The problem with Darwin's theory was that it reduced evolution to a chapter of accidents.
meet with an accident
▪ You're going to meet with an accident, Mr Chan, and so is your son.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ As usual, the fog and icy roads had led to several very nasty accidents.
▪ Both her parents had been killed in a car accident.
▪ Brussels airport was closed today after an accident on the runway.
▪ His best friend was killed in a skiing accident.
▪ I'm really sorry about breaking your camera - it was an accident.
▪ I only met her again through a fortunate accident.
▪ It is no accident that most of the country's outstanding public schools are in wealthy communities.
▪ Men have twice as many fatal accidents as women do for every mile they drive.
▪ Most serious accidents in the home involve electrical equipment or hot liquids.
▪ Robert had an accident in the lab. He was opening a bottle of acid and he spilt some on his hands.
▪ She has been in almost constant pain since her accident.
▪ She was in an automobile accident, but she's not seriously hurt.
▪ Teenage boys tend to drive wildly and often have accidents.
▪ The accident happened on Interstate 84, during the evening rush hour.
▪ The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry has dropped dramatically in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.
▪ Homicide is 28 times greater and car accidents are 45 ti mes greater.
▪ Improvements in technology do not come by accident.
▪ My parents had died when I was five, in a freak car accident.
▪ Sometimes when he was playing in the house, he would bump into his father by accident.
▪ The data for risk ratings and accident estimates were considered separately and are plotted in Figures 4.1 and 4.2 respectively.
▪ Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Accident

Accident \Ac"ci*dent\, n. [F. accident, fr. L. accidens, -dentis, p. pr. of accidere to happen; ad + cadere to fall. See Cadence, Case.]

  1. Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen occurrence of an afflictive or unfortunate character; a casualty; a mishap; as, to die by an accident.

    Of moving accidents by flood and field.
    --Shak.

    Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident: It is the very place God meant for thee.
    --Trench.

  2. (Gram.) A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, as gender, number, case.

  3. (Her.) A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.

  4. (Log.)

    1. A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.

    2. A quality or attribute in distinction from the substance, as sweetness, softness.

  5. Any accidental property, fact, or relation; an accidental or nonessential; as, beauty is an accident.

    This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea.
    --J. P. Mahaffy.

  6. Unusual appearance or effect. [Obs.]
    --Chaucer.

    Note: Accident, in Law, is equivalent to casus, or such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
accident

late 14c., "an occurrence, incident, event," from Old French accident (12c.), from Latin accidentem (nominative accidens), present participle of accidere "happen, fall out, fall upon," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + cadere "fall" (see case (n.1)). Meaning grew from "something that happens, an event," to "something that happens by chance," then "mishap." Philosophical sense "non-essential characteristic of a thing" is late 14c. Meaning "unplanned child" is attested by 1932.

Wiktionary
accident

n. 1 An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences. 2 (context transport vehicle English) Especially, a collision or similar unintended event that causes damage or death.

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WordNet
accident

  1. n. a mishap; especially one causing injury or death

  2. anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause [syn: fortuity, chance event]

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Gazetteer
Accident, MD -- U.S. town in Maryland
Population (2000): 353
Housing Units (2000): 162
Land area (2000): 0.496408 sq. miles (1.285690 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.496408 sq. miles (1.285690 sq. km)
FIPS code: 00225
Located within: Maryland (MD), FIPS 24
Location: 39.628074 N, 79.319996 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 21520
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Accident, MD
Accident
Wikipedia
Accident (1967 film)

Accident is Harold Pinter's 1967 British dramatic film adaptation of the 1965 novel by Nicholas Mosley. Directed by Joseph Losey, it is the second of three collaborations between Pinter and Losey, the others being The Servant (1963) and The Go-Between (1970). At the 1967 Cannes Film Festival it won the award for Grand Prix Spécial du Jury. It also won the prestigious Grand Prix of the Belgian Film Critics Association.

Accident (fallacy)

The informal fallacy of accident (also called destroying the exception or a dicto simpliciter ad dictum secundum quid) is a deductively valid but unsound argument occurring in statistical syllogisms (an argument based on a generalization) when an exception to a rule of thumb is ignored. It is one of the thirteen fallacies originally identified by Aristotle in Sophistical Refutations. The fallacy occurs when one attempts to apply a general rule to an irrelevant situation.

For example:

  • Cutting people with knives is a crime. →
Surgeons cut people with knives. → Surgeons are criminals.

It is easy to construct fallacious arguments by applying general statements to specific incidents that are obviously exceptions.

Generalizations that are weak generally have more exceptions (the number of exceptions to the generalization need not be a minority of cases) and vice versa.

This fallacy may occur when we confuse particulars ("some") for categorical statements ("always and everywhere"). It may be encouraged when no qualifying words like "some", "many", "rarely" etc. are used to mark the generalization.

Related inductive fallacies include: overwhelming exception, hasty generalization. See faulty generalization.

The opposing kind of dicto simpliciter fallacy is the converse accident.

Accident (philosophy)

Accident, as used in philosophy, is an attribute which may or may not belong to a subject, without affecting its essence. The word "accident" has been employed throughout the history of philosophy with several distinct meanings.

Accident (Bottom)

"Accident" is the sixth and final episode of the first series of British sitcom Bottom. It was first broadcast on Monday 28 October 1991. This episode sees the first appearance of Eddie's "real friends" Spudgun ( Steven O'Donnell) and Dave Hedgehog ( Christopher Ryan).

Accident (2008 film)

Accident is a 2008 Indian Kannada language Suspense Thriller film directed and starring Ramesh Aravind. Rekha Vedavyas appears in a pivotal role. The supporting cast features Pooja Gandhi, Thilak Shekar and Mohan.

Accident (disambiguation)

An accident is an unexpected and unintended event.

Accident or accidents may also refer to:

  • Accident (fallacy)
  • Accident (philosophy)
  • Accident, Maryland, a town in the United States
  • Accident (1928 film) (Polizeibericht Überfall), a German film directed by Ernö Metzner
  • Accident (1967 film), a British film directed by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley
  • Accident (1976 film), a Romanian film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu
  • Accident (1985 film), a Kannada film directed by Shankar Nag
  • Accident (2008 film), an Indian film directed by Ramesh Aravind
  • Accident (2009 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Soi Cheang
  • Accident (2012 film), a Bengali film directed by Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee
  • Accident (2013 film), a Nigerian film directed by Teco Benson
  • Accident (Mosley novel), a 1965 novel by writer Nicholas Mosley, later made into the 1967 film, Accident
  • Accident (novel), a 1994 novel by Danielle Steel
  • "Accident" (Bottom episode), an episode of 1990s British sitcom Bottom
  • "Accident", an episode of the British sitcom Only When I Laugh
  • "Accident", a song by Saint Etienne from Reserection EP, later remixed as "He's on the Phone"
  • "Accidents", a song by Alexisonfire from Watch Out!
  • Unintended consequences, also called accidents; outcomes not foreseen and intended by purposeful action
  • A person whom was born from an Unintended pregnancy
  • Accident, a 1982 album by British bass guitarist and composer John Greaves
Accident (novel)

Accident is 1994 novel by Romance novelist Danielle Steel

Accident (2009 film)

Accident , originally titled Assassins , is a 2009 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Soi Cheang, produced by Johnnie To and starring Louis Koo, and Richie Jen. Accident competed at the 66th Venice International Film Festival, and was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 17 September 2009.

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Region 1 by Shout! Factory in 2012.

Accident

An accident, also known as an unintentional injury, is an undesirable incidental and unplanned event that could have been prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence. Most scientists who study unintentional injury avoid using the term "accident" and focus on factors that increase risk of severe injury and that reduce injury incidence and severity (Robertson, 2015).

Accident (1928 film)

Accident is a 1928 German short film directed by Ernö Metzner.

Accident (1985 film)

Accident is a 1985 Indian Kannada language film directed by Shankar Nag. The film starred his elder brother Anant Nag and wife Arundhati Nag in lead roles. It was considered a landmark film in Kannada cinema.

The film won the National Film Award for Best Film on Other Social Issues at the 32nd National Film Awards in 1985. It also won multiple awards at the 1984-85 Karnataka State Film Awards including the award for First Best Film.

Accident (1976 film)

Accident is a 1976 Romanian thriller film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu.

Accident (2012 film)

Accident is a 2012 Bengali film directed by Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad mukherjee. The story of the film deals with road accident and its consequences in Kolkata. The director duo got motivated by Keshtopur road incident in April 2008 where at least 20 people were killed and nearly 40 were injured.

Accident (2013 film)

Accident is a 2013 Nigerian thriller drama film produced & directed by Teco Benson starring Kalu Ikeagwu & Chioma Chukwuka. It won the Best Nigerian Film award at the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards. It also has 3 nominations at the 2014 Nigeria Entertainment Awards. Its story revolves around the life of a female lawyer who is approached by a client seeking divorce with low-sexual satisfaction from partner as reasons. An unexpected event occur leading to several consequences.

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Usage examples of "accident".

For your willing ear and prospectus of what you might teach us, we will make sure, on your eight-hour shift, that we take all drunks, accidents, gunshots, and abusive hookers away from the House of God and across town to the E.

Keeping your mind active keeps arterial aging, immune aging, and even accidents in check, and has a RealAge benefit of making you 1.

When he was eleven years of age, both his parents were killed in a climbing accident in the Aiguilles Rouges above Chamonix, and the youth came under the guardianship of an aunt, since deceased, Miss Charmian Bond, and went to live with her at the quaintly-named hamlet of Pett Bottom near Canterbury in Kent.

Another similarity with the White Album was the constant presence of Yoko Ono, even more conspicuous this time because she and John had been involved in a motoring accident in Scotland and she was ordered to bed by her doctors.

Years ago, one of the Amas caught her rope in a rock underwater, and the people have talked of the accident ever since.

During my stay in Turin, no amorous fancy disturbed the peace of my soul, except an accident which happened to me with the daughter of my washerwoman, and which increased my knowledge in physics in a singular manner.

For the next three months we continued to meet each other once a week, always amorous, and never disturbed by the slightest accidents.

After the accident they went ever since they were five year I behind on playing in the gazebo at the bottom of the grassy hill ane with their heads to the Archer place, Kurt and Vivian and Z gether, laughing and colluding as if nothing bad had ever haping ever would.

To the apocalyptist, who literally awaits the Great Uncovering, all coincidence is synchronicity, all accident revelation.

Like an accident victim, she reeled back a step from their proximity, aquamarine eyes shattered, shame over her own weakness where he was concerned following fast.

When Willett would mention some favourite object of his boyhood archaistic studies he often shed by pure accident such a light as no normal mortal could conceivably be expected to possess, and the doctor shuddered as the glib allusion glided by.

I understand the Archdeacon had an accident to his head some time ago.

With a truer artistic skill than that of Homer, the Indian poet represents Karna as equal to Arjun in strength and skill, and his defeat is only due to an accident.

Tom, why should you afflict yourself so upon an accident, which, whatever be the consequence, can be attended with no danger to you, and in which your conscience cannot accuse you of having been the least to blame?

Benfield, but he finally settled down, to the no small mortification of the before-mentioned ladies, into writing a note to his kinsman, Lord Chatterton, whose residence was then in London, and who in reply, after expressing his sincere regret that an accident would prevent his having the pleasure of attending, stated the intention of his mother and two sisters to pay them an early visit of congratulation, as soon as his own health would allow of his travelling.