Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
Unless it's deliberate, it's still an accident. You don't get to make up your own definition of words.
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.”