Boris Bajic
Guest
There is an unusual mood sweeping through some areas of CC, resulting in a desire to change the meaning of words in the English language.
Something I have seen more than once over the months is a fascination with the implications (or otherwise) of the word 'accident'.
Driven perhaps by the current practice of some emergency services to use the word 'incident', some posters are starting to find the word accident somehow offensive or inaccurate when discussing traffic accidents.
There is a feeling in some quarters that the word 'accident' implies an absence of blame. It does not. It never has. Implicit in its meanng is an absence of intention, but there is no explicit or implicit connection with blame or culpability.
If professional bodies have their own reasons for adapting language use for their own purposes, let them do it. But a collision not intentionally caused is an accident.
Thank you.
Something I have seen more than once over the months is a fascination with the implications (or otherwise) of the word 'accident'.
Driven perhaps by the current practice of some emergency services to use the word 'incident', some posters are starting to find the word accident somehow offensive or inaccurate when discussing traffic accidents.
There is a feeling in some quarters that the word 'accident' implies an absence of blame. It does not. It never has. Implicit in its meanng is an absence of intention, but there is no explicit or implicit connection with blame or culpability.
If professional bodies have their own reasons for adapting language use for their own purposes, let them do it. But a collision not intentionally caused is an accident.
Thank you.