Why We Should Stop Using 'Car Accident' and Start Using 'Car Crash' Instead - CityLab
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Many publications and individual members of the press, including myself, have become more mindful of the way we write about traffic deaths and injuries, using language that acknowledges the role of the driver and moving away from the word “accident,” with its fatalistic implications.
In New York, in particular, Families for Safe Streets has launched a campaign to get people to say “crash” instead of “accident.” They want to emphasize that many, if not most, traffic fatalities are preventable—not inevitable occurrences. We don’t talk about “plane accidents,” they point out. We assume that when a plane crashes, there was some identifiable human or mechanical error, something that could have gone differently. We want to figure it out and name the cause and avoid a recurrence.
Why not look at car crashes the same way?
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