• @JargonWagon
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    109 months ago

    “Constable official vocab guidelines state we longer refer to these incidents as ‘accidents’, they’re now ‘collisions’…Accident implies there’s nobody to blame.”

    • Sergeant Nicholas Angel, Hot Fuzz
    • Leah96xxx (she/they)
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      39 months ago

      I remember in primary school, an actual police officer told us pretty much the same thing during one of those road safety classes. Road traffic collisions are almost never accidents, always incidents.