The Drop the 'A' Word library - Articles on the issue (Pro and Con)

Organizational Support:

Accident - An online magazine about accidents in America

NY Families for SafeStreets - Crash Not Accident

NHTSA - Crashes Aren’t Accidents

RoadPeace – Crash Not Accident campaign

We Save Lives – Crashes aren’t Accidents

FMCSA - A Crash is Not an Accident

Media and Blogs:

Bruce Butler Styleguide - For Reporting on Driving and Traffic Issues

Minnesota HometownSource.com - Ask a Trooper: Why is it a 'crash' and not an 'accident'?

Montreal Gazette - Are accidents waiting to happen really accidents?

Safety Driven - Accident or Collision?

Slate - It’s Never a “Bicycle Accident”

Driving.ca - Sorry, Sheriff, what just happened to Tiger Woods wasn't a car 'accident'

StreetsBlog LA - Was That an Accident?

Capitol Fax - AAA wants us to stop calling car crashes “accidents”

The South African - "Crash" vs. "Accident" - End the Language of Denial

Car and Driver - Is a Crash Ever an Accident?

Guardian - Why we need media reporting guidelines for road safety

Forbes -  Journalists Should Stress Agency In Reporting On Traffic Crashes

Ottowa Citizen - These Aren't Mere 'Accidents"

LAist - The Way We Talk About Crashes Is Evolving

Forbes - Crash Not Accident: Better Road-Safety Reporting Could Save Lives

Justice Speakers - Traffic Crashes: They’re Not “Accidents”

Houston Chronicle - Why we need to change the way we talk about traffic deaths

TeenSafe blog - What's the difference between a crash and an accident?

ETA Insurance - Words are powerful. Choose them carefully

Traffic Injury Research Foundation (TIRF) - Let's Talk About Crashes 

The Age - Crime, not 'accidents', often drives preventable road carnage

Bicycling Magazine - Take the #CrashNotAccident Pledge to Change How We Report Bike Deaths

JD Supra - Should we say car crash or car accident?  The language we use to classify auto collisions can be important

The Chronicle of Higher Education - Crash or Accident?

Bike NWA - #CrashNotAccident - Reframing the narrative of car bike collisions

WNCN - N. Carolina - When Vehicles Collide, What is it Called?

Driving You Crazy (Podcast) - When is a Crash Not an Accident?

Psychology Today - Accident vs. Crash - The Issue of Responsibility 

Minnesota Dept. of Public Safety - Crashes Aren't Accidents

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"

Science Magazine - Disregarding Risk Does Not Equal an 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'

Reading Eagle - Accident or crash?  There's a difference

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 Portland - Dear Fellow Journalists: This is why you should use #CrashNotAccident

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 wheel now?

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.”

Driving Under The Influence - Blog - A word on words: Accidents

Health Literacy Lab - Crash vs Accident: not just tomāto vs tomáto 

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. 

Automotive Collision - Are Collisions and Crashes Still an Accident?

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

Bike Law - Bicycle crashes are not "accidents"

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

Streets Are For Everyone - The Struggle To Change The Language of A Society

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'

Purcell Enterprises - The Semantics of an "Accident"

The NewsWheel - This Was No Accident; This Was a Crash

MADD - Ditching the "A" Word

The Traffic Calming Blog - Was it Really an Accident? 


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

Studies/Research:

Subtle linguistic cues influence perceived blame and financial liability

Motor vehicle crash versus accident: a change in terminology is necessary.

Does news coverage of traffic crashes affect perceived blame and preferred solutions? Evidence from an experiment

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