road accidents
Vehicular mishaps occurring
Road accidents are collisions or incidents involving vehicles on public roads, typically resulting in injury, death, or property damage.
The term covers everything from minor fender-benders to fatal crashes: Road accidents claim thousands of lives each year.
In official and journalistic contexts, road accidents often implies something preventable rather than purely accidental.
- car crashesVehicle collision incidents
- accidentsUnintended harmful occurrences
- collisionsForceful contacts between objects
- impactForceful contact or consequence
- crashSudden violent impact
pileup · pile up · head-on collision · reckless driving · rollover · vehicle · wreckage · drunk driving · siren · whiplash · airbag · black ice · brake · distracted driving · texting while driving · speed limit · blind spot · fatalities
- transportation issuestraffic congestion, traffic jams, congestion, gridlock, traffic safety
- tort lawtort, tort law, negligence, duty of care, breach of duty
- tortstort, negligence, tortfeasor, torts, tort law
road accidentsroad safety
Preventing highway harm
safe travels · safe driving · traffic safety · safe passage · accident prevention
road, accident, roads, roadway, accidental, accidentally, incidental, roadster, roadwork