Writings on #CrashNotAccident

Organizational Support:

NY Families for SafeStreets - Crash Not Accident

NHTSA - Crashes Aren’t Accidents

RoadPeace – Crash Not Accident campaign

We Save Lives – Crashes aren’t Accidents

Media – Blogs:

The New York Times - It’s No Accident: Advocates Want to Speak of Car ‘Crashes’ Instead

HuffingtonPost - We've Been Brainwashed Into Saying "Car Accident"
Nautilus -  How Language Helps Erase the Tragedy of Millions of Road Deaths
Kansas City Star - That Wreck Was No Accident

New York Magazine - Don’t Call a Car Crash an ‘Accident’

National Public Radio - When Cars Collide, Safety Advocates Say It's No 'Accident'

SFMTA - No "Accident": Why Language Matters in Making Our Streets Safer

TransAlt - Get #CrashNotAccident in the AP Stylebook

Missourian - Crash or accident? MoDOT emphasizes crucial difference

Bike Pittsburgh - Why We Say Crash Not Accident - Remembering Mark Popovich

Reclaim Magazine - Accidentally On Purpose

Wired - Stop Calling My Daughter's Death a Car Accident

CityLab - Why we say 'car accident, and why we need to stop

BoingBoing - Car Accidents Aren't Accidents

Washington Post - When a car crash isn’t an accident and why the difference matters

Gizmodo - There Are No Accidents

Alabama DUI Prosecutor - Word Choice Matters: Crash vs. Accident

Arizona Bike Law - Was that an accident, or a crash?

Vox - We don’t say “plane accident.”  We shouldn’t say “car accident” either

Virginia HeraldCourier - Who’s behind the wheelnow?

StreetsBLOG USA - It’s time for AP to nix the term “accident” to describe car collisions

Treehugger.com - Sign the pledge: “It’s a crash, not an accident.”

DrivingUnderTheInfluence - Blog - A word on words: Accidents

Driving.ca- Why there’s no such thing as a car “accident”

Business Insider - The one word that everyone should stop using to describe car crashes

AnnaLeah and Mary - Our crash was not an accident

Safe Driving Blog - Is it an accident of a collision?

Law Blog – Why you should say crash not accident

Biking Blog – Was that an accident, or a crash?

Quoted - The A-word: Is there no such thing as a car“accident”?


DriversEd.com - Why we use crash, not accident, when talking about collisions. 

Watertown Daily Times - "Accident" versus "Crash - Is there a difference?

Living Streets Alliance - Accidents vs. Collisions

CityLab - It's no 'accident': NYPD changes the way it take about traffic deaths

Bicycling.com - Call it a crash, not an accident

BBC - Audio Debate - Should accidents be called 'collisions'?

NY Times - 'Collision' replacing 'accident' for NYPD

University of California, Merced - How people talk about car accidents

Healthy Communities - Crash! On how we need to change how we talk about car crashes

Planetizen - Does it matter if we call crashes "accidents"?

Philebrity - Traffic Deaths Aren't "Accidents"

Jamestown Sun - Getting Rid of "Accidents"

Northland News Center - Officials on a mission to change how we refer to car crashes
The Car Connection - Stop talking about 'accidents', start talking about 'collisions'
The NewsWheel - This Was No Accident; This Was a Crash

Podcasts:

Philly Bike Coalition - Crash Not Accident

Counter Arguments:

Reason.com - Crashes Caused by Negligence Are Still Accidents

Mother Jones – Crash vs. Accident doesn’t seem like it matters much

Slate – Activists want to replace accident with crash. Not so fast

Sun Sentinel - No longer will accidents happen

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