BentMikey
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Wrong according to the dictionary. Anyway, even if you don't agree, why would you continue being so willfully offensive when you could easily use a different word?
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Wrong according to the dictionary. Anyway, even if you don't agree, why would you continue being so willfully offensive when you could easily use a different word?
400bhp
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Reported it to whom?
campbellab
Senior Member
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If no, please state reasons.
400bhp
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Hip Priest
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The word accident isn't offensive. It is correct.
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
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You are being offensive, and you are not using the word correctly, or rather you're using it in the old-fashioned sense of excusing drivers their fault. That is not acceptable and no longer correct. More and more people are turning away from using accident, including the police, the CTC, and many others.
glenn forger
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It's pretty stupid to call a collision caused by a drunk or otherwise distracted driver an accident, for pretty obvious reasons. It's like saying a man died by accident after tying steaks to himself and climbing over the fence into a lion pen in a zoo.
Matthew_T
"Young and Ex-whippet"
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The term 'accident' implies that noone is to blame. If someone dies of a tsunami, that is an accident.
An 'incident' means that an event has happened and someone is to blame but it hasnt been proven yet. An incident is a traffic collision, or anything which could possibly be someones fault.
An 'incident' means that an event has happened and someone is to blame but it hasnt been proven yet. An incident is a traffic collision, or anything which could possibly be someones fault.
The Police.
400bhp
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If he wants to.
Hip Priest
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It appears that your stance is motivated by personal circumstances, and I respect that, so I'll not pursue this matter further. Rest assured that if you threaten me with violence again, I'll take action via the proper channels.
I'd like to thank everyone on Cycle Chat for the help and advice I've been given during my first 18 months or so as a 'proper' cyclist.
Keep on pedalling.
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The thread has been closed for the time being to allow people to calm down.
It seems to have runs it's course anyway and is going round in circles.
There is no need for threats of violence from anybody however emotive the subject
It seems to have runs it's course anyway and is going round in circles.
There is no need for threats of violence from anybody however emotive the subject
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