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单词 accident
释义
accidentac‧ci‧dent /ˈæksɪdənt/ ●●● S2 W2 noun Word Origin
WORD ORIGINaccident
Origin:
1300-1400 French, Latin accidens ‘additional quality, chance’, from accidere ‘to happen’, from ad- ‘to’ + cadere ‘to fall’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • As usual, the fog and icy roads had led to several very nasty accidents.
  • Both her parents had been killed in a car accident.
  • Brussels airport was closed today after an accident on the runway.
  • His best friend was killed in a skiing accident.
  • I'm really sorry about breaking your camera - it was an accident.
  • I only met her again through a fortunate accident.
  • It is no accident that most of the country's outstanding public schools are in wealthy communities.
  • Men have twice as many fatal accidents as women do for every mile they drive.
  • Most serious accidents in the home involve electrical equipment or hot liquids.
  • Robert had an accident in the lab. He was opening a bottle of acid and he spilt some on his hands.
  • She has been in almost constant pain since her accident.
  • She was in an automobile accident, but she's not seriously hurt.
  • Teenage boys tend to drive wildly and often have accidents.
  • The accident happened on Interstate 84, during the evening rush hour.
  • The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry has dropped dramatically in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.
  • Homicide is 28 times greater and car accidents are 45 ti mes greater.
  • Improvements in technology do not come by accident.
  • My parents had died when I was five, in a freak car accident.
  • Sometimes when he was playing in the house, he would bump into his father by accident.
  • The data for risk ratings and accident estimates were considered separately and are plotted in Figures 4.1 and 4.2 respectively.
  • Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.
Thesaurus
THESAURUS
an event in which a vehicle is damaged and often someone is hurt: · Her father died in a car accident.· Hugh had an accident on his way to work.
a serious accident in which a vehicle hits something else: · Rees-Jones was the only person to survive the crash.· a car/plane/train crash· He was killed in a plane crash.
an accident in which two or more cars, trains etc hit each other: · His car was involved in a collision with a train.a head-on collision (=between vehicles that are driving towards each other): · The actor was killed in a head-on collision while driving his new sports car.
a serious accident involving a train, plane, or boat, in which a lot of people are killed or injured: · It was Britain’s worst air disaster.
American English an accident in which a car or train is badly damaged: · Ben nearly died in a car wreck.
an accident that involves several cars or trucks: · The pileup happened in thick fog.· There was a 12-car pileup on the motorway.
American English informal British English informal a car accident in which little damage is done: · Atkinson was involved in a fender-bender in the hotel parking lot.· At 15, he borrowed his parents’ car and had a prang.
Longman Language Activatorat work, at home, when doing a sport etc
· She has been in almost constant pain since her accident.have an accident · Robert had an accident in the lab. He was opening a bottle of acid and he spilt some on his hands.serious accident · Most serious accidents in the home involve electrical equipment or hot liquids.fatal accident · The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry has dropped dramatically in recent years.climbing/riding/skiing etc accident · His best friend was killed in a skiing accident.
an accident that does not have very serious results, especially one caused by someone making a mistake: · We managed to reach our destination, despite one or two mishaps earlier on in the day.minor/slight mishap: · Josh had just had a slight mishap with the breadknife, and was trying to find a Band-Aid.
in a car, train, plane etc
· The accident happened on Interstate 84, during the evening rush hour.· Brussels airport was closed today after an accident on the runway.have an accident · Teenage boys tend to drive wildly and often have accidents.bad/nasty/serious accident · As usual, the fog and icy roads had led to several very nasty accidents.fatal accident · Men have twice as many fatal accidents as women do for every mile they drive.car/road/traffic accident · Both her parents had been killed in a car accident.auto/automobile accident American · She was in an automobile accident, but she's not seriously hurt.
an accident in which a vehicle or plane hits something violently and is damaged or destroyed: · Ira Louvin was killed in a crash in Montana that also took the lives of six other people.car/plane/train crash: · Her husband died in a plane crash in 1981.
American an accident involving cars or other vehicles: · Nobody could have survived the wreck.
a serious road accident in which many cars or other vehicles crash into each other: · The pile-up happened in thick fog and caused a seven-mile tailback on the motorway.multiple pile-up British (=a pile up involving a large number of cars): · a multiple pile-up involving a minibus and five cars
a very serious accident involving a train, plane, or ship, in which many people are killed: · The city has emergency plans for dealing with a major disaster such as a rail crash.air/rail disaster: · At least 264 people died, in one of the worst civilian air disasters of all time.the Lockerbie disaster/the Challenger disaster etc: · The Challenger disaster cost the lives of seven astronauts, and set back the nation's space program for years.
an accident in which two or more vehicles, planes, or ships hit each other: collision with: · A school bus has been involved in a collision with a fuel tanker.mid-air collision (=between two planes in the air): · The risk of a mid-air collision over central London has increased dramatically.head-on collision (=between two vehicles moving directly towards each other): · These airbags are designed to protect car drivers in head-on collisions.
to have an accident
· You shouldn't go so fast on that motorcycle, you'll have an accident!· Jack's had an accident at school! They've taken him to the hospital.
to have a serious accident in a car, train, plane etc by violently hitting another vehicle or something such as a wall or the ground: · He lost control of his car at the first bend and crashed.· The plane crashed shortly after take-off.crash into/onto: · The bus crashed into an embankment before bursting into flames.crash a car/bike/plane etc: · Rick crashed his bike before he'd finished paying for it.
formal to have an accident - used in official written documents and in news reports: · If you are involved in an accident, wearing a seat belt will halve the risk of death.· Stolen cars are more likely to be involved in accidents.
when you do something without intending to do it
· I accidentally burnt a hole in her sofa with my cigarette.· An 11-month-old baby died after accidentally swallowing several of the tablets.· Fleming discovered the drug by accident, when he was researching something else.completely by accidentalso quite by accident British · I met the man quite by accident, and we began a conversation.
happening without being planned or intended: · She touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it must have been accidental.· an accidental discharge of toxic wastepurely accidental (=completely accidental): · They believe that miscalculations made on the tax forms were purely accidental.
if you do something by mistake , you intend to do one thing, but you accidentally do something else instead: · Michelle must have picked up my keys by mistake.· I opened this by mistake, Paula, but I think it's for you - sorry.· Gary wandered into the wrong hotel room by mistake.
if you mistakenly do something, you intend to do one thing, but you accidentally do something else instead, especially because you are confused: · The crew had mistakenly shut down the engine, and the plane went out of control.· A handful of people die each year from mistakenly eating poisonous fungi.
especially spoken to do something accidentally - use this especially when expressing the idea that you are sorry for something that you have done, or when you think you are being unfairly blamed for something: · I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt your feelings.· I'm sure he didn't mean to yell at you - he was just angry.· Sorry folks, I don't mean to interrupt your dinner.· If we've offended you in some way, we didn't mean to.
if you say that something was an accident, you mean that you are sorry it happened, but it was not done deliberately: · Marris told the police the killing was an accident· Don't blame yourself - it was an accident.
if you do something unintentionally , especially something bad, you do it even though you do not intend to do it: · Teachers often unintentionally favor certain students.· The advertisement unintentionally offended Scottish people.· Several scenes in the movie are unintentionally funny.
use this about something you do without intending to, especially something that annoys, upsets, or causes problems for someone else: · The senator apologised, saying any offense his remarks had caused had been completely unintentional.· One originally unintended consequence of the discussions was the setting up of an official inquiry into the department's funding.
when something happens without being planned
if something happens by chance , it happens unexpectedly and seems to have no particular cause: · I met an old friend by chance on the train.· If by chance I'm not in when she calls, can you take a message?quite/purely/entirely by chance (=completely by chance): · Quite by chance, a TV crew was filming in the area when the accident happened.
if you do something by accident , you do it by chance and without intending to do it: · Fleming discovered penicillin almost by accident.· We ended up by accident on the wrong train and had to ride all the way to Montreal.· The trigger of the gun is locked so that it cannot be fired by accident.quite by accident (=completely by chance): · Lombardi heard about their plan quite by accident.
if you happen to do something , you do it by chance and not because of any particular reason or plan: · Justin forgot the map but I happened to have another one in the glove compartment.just happen to do something: · I'm sorry I didn't phone first -- I just happened to be passing and thought I'd drop in.· We're not related -- we just happen to have the same name.
use this to say that something happened by chance, when this is connected with what you have just been talking about: · This was the first time I had ever seen a panda, and as luck would have it, I had my camera with me.· As luck would have it, it rained the next day and the game was canceled.
a surprising situation in which two things happen that are similar or seem connected, but no-one planned or intended this to happen: · Hi Phil. What a coincidence -- we were just talking about you.by coincidence: · My mother is called Anna, and by coincidence my wife's mother is called Anna too.just a coincidence: · It was just a coincidence that we were in Paris at the same time.by a strange/sad/happy etc coincidence: · By a strange coincidence the king was assassinated on the very spot where his grandfather had been killed.
the way in which good or bad things seem to happen to people by chance: · There's no skill in a game like roulette, it's all luck.· Success is not a matter of chance - it takes a lot of hard work.pure luck/chance: · It was pure chance that we ran into each other on the street.leave something to chance (=let things happen by chance): · You must plan ahead. You can't leave these things to chance.
the power or force that is supposed to control the way everything happens, so that people cannot completely control their own lives: · It was fate that brought us together.· They saw themselves as victims of fate.by a twist of fate (=because fate made things happen in an unexpected way): · By a strange twist of fate the judge died on the very day that Cordell was executed.
something that happens by chance with no plan or intention: · I only met her again through a fortunate accident.· It is no accident that most of the country's outstanding public schools are in wealthy communities.
use this when you are talking about a situation that is surprising because by chance it is connected with something else that has been noticed or mentioned: · We've just seen a really beautiful house and, as it happens, it's for sale.· I needed to borrow a car, and as it happened Andrew wasn't using his.
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY Meaning 2adjectives
· There’s been a bad accident on the freeway.· The road is closed following a serious accident.
· News is coming in of a major rail accident.
· We narrowly avoided a nasty accident.· ‘This was an absolutely horrific accident,’ said an ambulance spokesman.
(=in which someone is killed)· a fatal accident involving a bus and a cyclist
(=one that is not serious)· The ice and poor visibility caused minor accidents all over the country.
· The number of traffic accidents has gone down.· Portugal has one of Western Europe’s worst road accident rates.
(also an automobile accident American English formal)· He was badly injured in a car accident.
American English (also a flying accident)· Holly died in a plane accident.
· It was the country's worst ever rail accident.
(=when someone is hit by a driver who does not stop)· A woman is fighting for her life after a hit-and-run accident.
verbs
formal:· Your son has been involved in a car accident.
· Steps have been taken to prevent a similar accident happening again.
(also an accident occurs formal)· No one saw the accident happen.· Most road accidents occur in urban areas.
· Young drivers are more likely to have accidents than older drivers.
accident + NOUN
· One of the accident victims is still trapped in his vehicle.
· There is a relation between accident rates and the numbers of drivers on the road.· a survey of the latest airline accident statistics
· The two deaths are the subject of an accident inquiry.· Accident investigations often take months.
· Accident investigators have been there all morning.
phrases
(=the place where it happened)· Police were at the scene of the accident within minutes.
COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘a small accident’. Say a minor accident.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
 an accident blackspot (=where there are a lot of road accidents)
(also a car wreck American English)· He was involved in a car crash.
· 75% of accidents are caused by speeding.
 a fatal climbing accident If it is not treated correctly, the condition can prove fatal (=be fatal).
 He was crushed to death in a freak accident.
 a horrific plane crash
(=happening at work)
· The accident inquiry revealed that the accident had been caused by human error.
· You also get free travel accident insurance if you pay for your tickets with a credit card.
 I’m afraid your son’s been involved in an accident (=he is one of the people in an accident).
 He had a nasty accident while riding in the forest.
 Educating new drivers is important for the prevention of accidents.
 Effective crime prevention must be our main goal. a fire prevention officer
 He’s always been accident-prone.
· Her husband was killed in a road accident.
· He is recovering from a serious accident.
· He’s been involved in a traffic accident.
 an unfortunate accident
· The crash victims were rushed to hospital.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.· In these early days a flying career was not particularly attractive in view of the frequency of fatal accidents.· Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated.· An exhaust leak from an O-ring seal in a right booster motor was blamed for the fatal 1986 Challenger accident.· The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents.· None of the eight other fatal accidents claimed by the villagers has been recognised by the government.· Forty-five percent of fatal road accidents involving young people are alcohol-linked, and so are drowning and deaths from accidental overdose.· Blaming terracing alone for the tragedy is rather like banning cars after a fatal accident.
· It had been a freak accident.· Call it a freak accident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.· In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.· My parents had died when I was five, in a freak car accident.· Six years ago Stephen Dent was paralysed in a freak accident.· I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freak accident.· Apparently nobody was injured in this freak accident.· Betty beheaded by hotpot ladle in freak accident. 2.
· William Bird's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver.· She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years, her head full of horrific accidents.
· Is the company improving its industrial accident record?· You had an industrial accident but it was never treated as one.· This scheme was replaced in 1946 by a state scheme for victims of industrial accidents and prescribed industrial diseases.· I wondered if he was gingerly admitting that his plant had a problem with industrial accidents.· The rate of industrial accidents was horrific.· They are the victims of auto accidents, industrial accidents, falls from cliffs, fires, fights, stabbings, shootings.· The waste is the most toxic remains of the industrial accident at Seveso in 1976.· The only place where official statistics have been released for industrial accidents is Shenzhen.
· By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.· No major accidents occurred in Tempe or Mesa during the outage, police said.· Earlier this month the MoD repeated its claim that transporters are designed to withstand major accidents.· If it is a major accident to a wide bodied jet he could send them all.· Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board.· The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.· This reflects an aversion which is attached by society to major accidents or dread consequences, e.g. cancer.
· There's been a nuclear accident, savvy?· On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.· By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.· Likewise, the scare associated with the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion.· As had happened in previous nuclear accidents, the operators misread the situation.· Life goes on, despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire.· First and most significant is the possibility of some kind of nuclear war or accident that would destroy the human race.
· But it could mean the difference between financial security and financial disaster for you and your family should a serious accident strike.· The reason is that serious accidents are so infrequent, safety experts said.· According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur.· He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while.· Subsequently, a serious accident at the company's water-theme park in Surrey had a detrimental effect on its public profile.· But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage.· But serious accidents can and do happen every day of the year.
· Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.· The jury saw this case exactly as it is: It was a tragic accident, not a murder.· Was this the moment to ask about Emily's brother, Tom, and the tragic accident?· I have no reason to believe at this time that this was anything more than a terribly tragic accident.· Coroner David Gibbons said he was satisfied that Mr Pollards death was was a tragic accident.· If that is acceptable, why not create a clone of a child who was lost in a tragic accident?· It's a very tragic accident.· The biggest incident in which he has been involved was tragic double fatal accident in which two young girls died.
· He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.· Since the unfortunate accident to your father, I have had the strangest presentiments concerning you, at times.· Although thousands of children are killed or injured each year in unfortunate accidents, something made this case special.· Last Friday's unfortunate accident left the club with no alternative.· It was a very unfortunate accident.
NOUN
· Look, no one wants to be involved in an auto accident.· In 1996, 345 people were killed in auto accidents in Nevada, up from 310 in 1995.· The auto accident is the most absurd of all adversary proceedings.· For this reason a number of states have adopted no-fault systems for settling personal injury claims arising from auto accidents.· Something like 40,000 people are killed in auto accidents every year.· This time it was Alderman Wagner, in an auto accident.· The auto accident occurred in 1986 and left her in a coma for three days with a ruptured aorta and damaged liver.
· Killed last year in an automobile accident.· After an automobile accident, Sayegh, had the red truck repainted.· Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident.· Her neck was broken in an automobile accident 13 years ago.· This young guy has an automobile accident - they take him to hospital - his wife breaks down and cries.· Von Halem is recovering from an automobile accident.
· Louise Davies, 23, from Bootle, lost her son Peter in 1990 in a car accident.· She had no more car accidents.· Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago.· Their concert also honors late bassist and composer Sean Kelly Ball, who was killed in a car accident on February 28.· In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident.· Others noted that his mental condition had deteriorated two years ago, when he was in a serious car accident.· An obvious example would be a painting called Bald Eagle, made in 1955, one year before the car accident.· There had been two car accidents.
· The Department of Transport's marine accident investigation branch has started an inquiry.· I expect shortly to receive reports from the marine accident investigation branch of a number of recent fishing vessel accidents.· There remain the specialists who look after the flight recorder side of aircraft accident investigation.· Air accident investigations will take months.· There are 30 courses dedicated to specific safety issues, such as handling portable gas cylinders, food hygiene and accident investigation procedures.· The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner.· The wreckage was then taken to the air accident investigation unit at Farnborough.
· After all our lectures, they still don't think accident prevention applies to them.· A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
· In recent years, the pedestrian accident rate for children has improved relative to that for adults.· There are so few accidents that comparing accident rates is not statistically valid.· Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.· But all of this may do little to dent the accident rate.· Mr Riley, for Bioplan, said the accident rate on Hollyhurst Road was lower than the national average.· But what we found was that that was the point when the accident rate began to go up.· So what are greater congestion, higher accident rates, and worse air pollution compared to the freedom to drive?· Blot said the upgrade has sliced Harrier accident rates in half.
· The accident reports had been kept secret.· Photographs, a sketch plan and any police accident report book are receivable in evidence at trial.· Study the airline accident reports and you will realise the truth of this.· But from now on, whenever I read an accident report, I shall be slightly less blasé.· Health and safety Executive's five year fatal accident report gives rise for concern.
· Death crash: A man died last night following a road accident between Brompton and Darlington.· One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel.· It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents perannum, many more than road accidents.· Normally you see these kinds of injuries with victims of road accidents.· Rose lost the use of her legs in a road accident 15 years ago.· In 1990, 13 people were killed and 922 injured in 739 road accidents.· A total of nine hundred and thirty eight road accidents happened between January and June.
· Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.· Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident.· S., for example, there are 1, 844, 000 alcohol-related traffic accidents a year.· Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside.· And the second story that night was all about a one-car traffic accident, with sketchy details about injuries.· Consider the problems of traffic accidents more closely.· Emergency admissions as a result of road traffic accidents or falls on icy pavements can not be arranged.
· He had seen similar symptoms before on road accident victims.· At Advanced Tissue, research has focused on replacement parts for accident victims or other patients.· It's a message echoed by doctors and accident victims alike, as Kim Barnes reports.· The Cosbys are getting a dose of what families of homicide and fatal accident victims get routinely.· Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.· Outside, a small but determined lobby of supporters, including the first accident victim to be saved by the air ambulance.· It features actress Denise Douglas, 18, as a hideously injured road accident victim.· The previous transplants had come from accident victims and were rejected within days.
VERB
· They're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents.· However, its only motion is to rotate, so it can hardly have caused the accident.· Daytime drowsiness and associated sleep disorders can affect the quality of your life and can cause accidents, especially among drivers.· They caused lethal accidents, made noises at the wrong time, and froze when action was required.· In fact I cause a car accident by obstructing some one's driveway.· Human deaths from snake bites are caused mainly by accident.· Scooter Hire Most holiday injuries we see are caused by scooter accidents.· Loss or damage caused by accidents is not generally included, though you may be able to claim under some other section.
· A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.· On February 11, 1988, their eldest child, Nicky, died in a motorcycle accident.· Perhaps, in an exceptional year, several might, or a few may replace brothers or sisters who die by accident.· His father died in a hunting accident during the war.· And many more died from accidents.· A son had died in a highway accident and the other daughter lived in Califor-nia.· New Jersey passed a law requiring helmets for scooter riders after a 6-year-old died following an accident.
· The end of the Mille Miglia came in 1957, following an accident which resulted in the loss of 13 lives.· Death crash: A man died last night following a road accident between Brompton and Darlington.· Repairs Please contact us following any accident damage to your caravan.· A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers.· We will also insure you in the same way following an accident involving any trailer while attached to your motor cycle.· She has needed four brain operations following the accident on the town's Berwick Hills estate.· It was Friday morning, following the accident.
· That this should happen is no accident according to Modigliani and Miller.· Such communities do not happen by accident.· In most cases, what happened was an accident.· It does not happen by accident.· If it had happened in a car accident and had been some one else's fault, perhaps I would've been bitter.· Herbert 92X refused to accept a plea bargain, since he regarded what had happened as an accident.
· No one was injured in the accident on the A684 at Scruton crossroads.· More children are killed or seriously injured by vehicle accidents and being unrestrained than any other childhood accident that can be prevented.· Time allowed 00:22 Read in studio Four people have been injured in an accident in thick fog.· Schumacher was not injured in the accident and climbed out of the cockpit unassisted.· In 1990, 13 people were killed and 922 injured in 739 road accidents.· The plaintiff's husband was injured in an accident at work.· The aunt, possibly, of a girl who had been injured in the accident.· The two-year-old tabby was horrifically injured in a road accident.
· Women hurt: Two women were taken to hospital after their car was involved in an accident in Easington Road, Hartlepool.· Mark John Haugo was involved in a near-fatal accident in 1990 that has left him handicapped.· He could have been involved in an accident.· Look, no one wants to be involved in an auto accident.· A van driver involved in the accident has been charged with causing death by careless driving.· Michelle Howard has spent her legal career helping clients involved in medical accidents.· Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable, and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection.· The vehicle was involved in an accident in which the plaintiff's van was damaged.
· There is a one-in-328 chance of an employee being killed in accident while working on the nation's farms.· Their concert also honors late bassist and composer Sean Kelly Ball, who was killed in a car accident on February 28.· For he was not killed in a car accident.· Brad Joss, civil engineer, killed in a vehicle accident in Sonoma County on Jan. 4, 1994.· Her 32-year-old partner, Nas, was killed in a motorcycle accident on 10 July, 1998.· They were two of three snowboarders killed in accidents in the Lake Tahoe area in just one week.· I mean, a whopping 82 per cent of people who were killed in car accidents had not been smoking cannabis.
· This will mentioned a child that would be born later; this was Oliver, the child you met later by accident.· Ian Barnes, Jessie's cousin, had also gone to Social Services that day and they met by accident.· And the girl comes to see me - has been comin' ever since I met with the accident last year.· You're going to meet with an accident, Mr Chan, and so is your son.· Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street.· But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there.· Was it in there that she met with her accident?
· Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.· She had been sitting in the first row near center ice Wednesday night when the accident occurred.· These refer to victims of road accidents occurring throughout Lothian and not necessarily in the eligible areas themselves.· When an accident occurs, the county comes along the next day and grades the road.· According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur.· On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.· With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred.· The accident occurred Saturday on a little-used mountain road full of dangerous curves.
· Now safety experts are targetting hundreds of companies to prevent accidents and deaths in the workplace.· Air bags are 100 % effective in preventing injuries due to accidents.· Obviously knowledge as well as self-discipline is necessary to prevent accidents and maintain a safe environment.· Caltrans officials say the project will help prevent passing-related accidents on the two-lane mountain road.· Planning does not prevent useful accidents.· To prevent any such accident, the king ordered that no flax or hemp should ever come into his castle.· But this small orange box produced by a Thame company could help prevent such accidents in the future.
· It was expected that identifying and resurfacing slippery roads would reduce skidding accidents by 1800 a year.· But the farm did make some changes in picking practices to reduce accidents.· He said the buses would cut air pollution and reduce sheep deaths from accidents with cars.· And the question of efficiency, whether imposing such liability would reduce accidents or contribute to a more efficient use of resources.· One of the aims of this proposal would be to reduce the number of accidents at work involving young people.· We believe we can reduce accidents by using this equipment.· The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents.
Phrases
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY
  • Fleming discovered penicillin almost by accident.
  • He brought over some of my mail that was delivered to his house by accident.
  • Lombardi heard about their plan quite by accident.
  • The fire started by accident.
  • The trigger of the gun is locked so that it cannot be fired by accident.
  • We ended up by accident on the wrong train and had to ride all the way to Montreal.
  • And if accidents happen, they happen.
  • But some accidents happen because of their egocentric tendency to think of themselves as invulnerable.
  • But worse is the fact that the same accidents happen time and time again.
  • Everyone knows that hideous accidents happen, however precise modern weapons are supposed to be.
  • Local fishermen say that, when accidents happen, the trawlers never stop.
  • Therefore, both over-confidence and under-confidence may play a part in creating an environment in which accidents happen more readily.
  • Where he went, accidents happened.
  • Which is exactly how accidents happen.
  • A student helicopter pilot wallowing around in a hover in a tight clearing is an accident waiting to happen.
  • Another way of putting it would be that the dollar is an accident waiting to happen.
  • Mr Stewart said that there was an accident waiting to happen and he feared lives would be lost.
  • People living near the site say it was an accident waiting to happen.
  • Unless, of course, it was an accident waiting to happen.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
  • Such a chapter of accidents, however ridiculous in modern eyes, epitomised a genuinely important aspect of international relations.
  • The problem with Darwin's theory was that it reduced evolution to a chapter of accidents.
  • You're going to meet with an accident, Mr Chan, and so is your son.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounaccidentadjectiveaccidentaladverbaccidentally
1by accident in a way that is not planned or intended OPP  on purpose, deliberately:  I met her quite by accident (=completely by accident). The discovery was made almost by accident. The pilot, whether by accident or design (=whether it was planned or not planned), made the plane do a sharp turn.GRAMMAR Don’t say: by an accident2[countable] an event in which a car, train, plane etc is damaged and often someone is hurt:  Over 70,000 people are seriously injured every year in road accidents. The accident happened at the junction of Forest Road and Pine Walk. a train accident3[countable] a situation in which someone is injured or something is damaged without anyone intending them to be:  Ken had an accident at work and had to go to hospital. I’m sorry about breaking the vase – it was an accident (=I did not intend to do it).a climbing/skiing/hunting etc accident He died in a climbing accident in the Himalayas. She was injured in a freak accident (=an unusual accident) when a wall suddenly collapsed. I had a slight accident with your coffee. They lost their lives in a tragic accident.4[countable, uncountable] something that happens without anyone planning or intending it:  My third baby was an accident. It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs in nursing, while women remain on the lower grades.an accident of birth/geography/history etc (=an event or situation caused by chance)5accidents (will) happen spoken used to tell someone who has broken something that they should not worry that it has happened6an accident waiting to happen used about a situation in which an accident is likely to happen because no one is trying to prevent it:  The boats are being left to drift; it’s an accident waiting to happen.COLLOCATIONS– Meaning 2adjectivesa bad/serious accident· There’s been a bad accident on the freeway.· The road is closed following a serious accident.a major accident· News is coming in of a major rail accident.a horrible/nasty/horrific accident· We narrowly avoided a nasty accident.· ‘This was an absolutely horrific accident,’ said an ambulance spokesman.a fatal accident (=in which someone is killed)· a fatal accident involving a bus and a cyclista minor accident (=one that is not serious)· The ice and poor visibility caused minor accidents all over the country.a road/traffic accident· The number of traffic accidents has gone down.· Portugal has one of Western Europe’s worst road accident rates.a car accident (also an automobile accident American English formal)· He was badly injured in a car accident.a plane accident/an airplane accident American English (also a flying accident)· Holly died in a plane accident.a rail accident/a train accident· It was the country's worst ever rail accident.a hit-and-run accident (=when someone is hit by a driver who does not stop)· A woman is fighting for her life after a hit-and-run accident.verbsbe involved in an accident formal:· Your son has been involved in a car accident.prevent an accident· Steps have been taken to prevent a similar accident happening again.an accident happens (also an accident occurs formal)· No one saw the accident happen.· Most road accidents occur in urban areas.have an accident· Young drivers are more likely to have accidents than older drivers.accident + NOUNan accident victim· One of the accident victims is still trapped in his vehicle.accident rates/statistics· There is a relation between accident rates and the numbers of drivers on the road.· a survey of the latest airline accident statisticsan accident investigation/inquiry· The two deaths are the subject of an accident inquiry.· Accident investigations often take months.an accident investigator· Accident investigators have been there all morning.phrasesthe scene of an accident (=the place where it happened)· Police were at the scene of the accident within minutes.COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘a small accident’. Say a minor accident.THESAURUSaccident an event in which a vehicle is damaged and often someone is hurt: · Her father died in a car accident.· Hugh had an accident on his way to work.crash a serious accident in which a vehicle hits something else: · Rees-Jones was the only person to survive the crash.· a car/plane/train crash· He was killed in a plane crash.collision an accident in which two or more cars, trains etc hit each other: · His car was involved in a collision with a train.a head-on collision (=between vehicles that are driving towards each other): · The actor was killed in a head-on collision while driving his new sports car.disaster a serious accident involving a train, plane, or boat, in which a lot of people are killed or injured: · It was Britain’s worst air disaster.wreck American English an accident in which a car or train is badly damaged: · Ben nearly died in a car wreck.pileup an accident that involves several cars or trucks: · The pileup happened in thick fog.· There was a 12-car pileup on the motorway.fender-bender American English informal, prang British English informal a car accident in which little damage is done: · Atkinson was involved in a fender-bender in the hotel parking lot.· At 15, he borrowed his parents’ car and had a prang.
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