I'm enjoying finding other people out there who are vocalizing their frustration with traffic safety issues. I just found man on Twitter, Gary Kavanagh @GaryRidesBikes, who had some insight into using the word accident.

He tweeted: "...accident muddles responsibility, but many knowingly take risks & break laws, & sometimes cars used as weapons intentionally."

He went on to say: "......I started to default to saying traffic collision, crash or similar language, but never accident..."

I had not thought about that. Every time I write car accident and really the whole purpose of this blog is to convince peoples minds and hearts that many of these are not accidents, the majority, majorly.

So I will use car crash or car collision.

Yesterday I asked where someone was who normally picks up out trash and the new guy said he'd been in an accident. What happened, I asked.

The car started to slide, it was raining and it flipped, he said. The way he spoke about it made it sounded as if the car was alive. I find a lot of people talk about car crashes that way.

The guy will be alright, he's injured and of course my heart goes out to him. I'm commenting more on the way the other guy spoke about the crash as if the car just lost it. Again, we have lost it.