Originally Posted by
Trakhak
From this
NY Times page:
It’s No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car ‘Crashes’ Instead
Just don’t call them accidents anymore.
That is the position of a growing number of safety advocates, including grass-roots groups, federal officials and state and local leaders across the country. They are campaigning to change a 100-year-old mentality that they say trivializes the single most common cause of traffic incidents: human error.
“When you use the word ‘accident,’ it’s like, ‘God made it happen,’ ” Mark Rosekind, the head of the
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said at a
driver safety conference this month at the Harvard School of Public Health.
“In our society,” he added, “language can be everything.”
This is the kind of argument people make when they don't have any real ideas of how to reduce the problem. I don't see how "crash" really differs from "accident" in this regard , it's just slightly more vague as to causation. Don't see how that's any less "God made it happen."