An accident is a specific, identifiable, unexpected, unusual and unintended external action which occurs in a particular time and place, without apparent or deliberate cause but with marked effects. It implies a generally negative probabilistic outcome which may have been avoided or prevented had circumstances leading up to the accident been recognized, and acted upon, prior to its occurrence.

Experts in the field of injury prevention avoid use of the term 'accident' to describe events that cause injury in an attempt to highlight the predictable and preventable nature of most injuries. Such incidents are viewed from the perspective of epidemiology - predictable and preventable. Preferred words are more descriptive of the event itself, rather than of its unintended nature (e.g., crash, collision, incident, drowning, fall, etc.)

Accidents of particularly common types (auto, fire, etc.) are investigated to identify how to avoid them in the future. This is sometimes called root cause analysis, but does not generally apply to accidents that cannot be deterministically predicted. A root cause of an uncommon and purely random accident may never be identified, and thus future similar accidents remain "accidental."

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How do the number of auto accidents compare to the number of motorcycle accidents?
Q. How do the number of auto accidents compare to the number of motorcycle accidents? , thanks
Asked by arsenal4teeen - Tue Jun 17 17:47:35 2008 - - 1 Answers - 0 Comments

A. in what country ? would be higher in asian countries than here (canaduh)
Answered by maddog - Tue Jun 17 18:26:02 2008

How many car accidents happen in America each minute or hour?
Q. Well, you know, I just wonder because as a driver, I tend to encounter road problems or car accidents everyonce in a while and it might make us ask ourselves : so how many times does this happen in America? how many people get injured and all that right.
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A. i looked it up once and decided to work from home... after 4 car wrecks in 2 years none my fault i thought my stats were pretty poor.
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How many car accidents have you been in that were your fault?
Q. I guess amount of time youve been driving comes into factor too. If youve only been driving a year and has had no accidents than that might not really count compared to some one who has been driving 10 years and no accidents... but yeah, just curious.
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A. two weeks after passing my test I pulled out of my grandparents driveway and blew my tyre on their wall (it's very low to the ground). I still haven't lived that one down. Other than that I've been pretty lucky.
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