Collocations withaccident
These are words often used in combination withaccident.
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accident investigator
The accident investigator observed that unexpected events, such as user slips and mode errors, are commonly considered as human errors.
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accident of birth
It is no longer an accident of birth.
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accident prevention
The reduction of home hazards was a frequent focus of accident prevention work.
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auto accident
He received his commission as second lieutenant in 1968 (he missed a year due to injuries from an auto accident).
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automobile accident
She lost her left hand and forearm due to an automobile accident at the age of 5.
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aviation accident
Placing pilot error as a cause of an aviation accident has often been controversial.
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bicycle accident
There may be a patient suffering from a sprained ankle as a result of a bicycle accident, or perhaps a woman having an uncomplicated baby.
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boating accident
The play was about a woman who elopes with her lover while making her escape appear to be a boating accident.
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bus accident
There had been a horrible bus accident, and he had been up all night working on patient after patient.
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car accident
She became blind as a result of a car accident.
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criticality accident
Additionally, nuclear criticality safety is concerned with mitigating the consequences of a nuclear criticality accident.
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fatal accident
I content myself with giving two, the first concerning a fatal accident and the second a non-fatal accident.
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freak accident
What if because of some freak accident all children conceived from today onward would be immortal?
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happy accident
Acoustically, it was a happy accident.
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hunting accident
It is the result, we know, of an illness through a hunting accident.
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industrial accident
I was recently asked to assess a man who had been injured in an industrial accident.
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mining accident
This centre is the only one of its kind dealing solely with mining accident cases.
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minor accident
They run minor accident centres.
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motor accident
Each hospital must calculate the costs of the individual treatment provided to each motor accident victim, separating in-patient treatment costs from out-patient treatment costs.
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motorcycle accident
He was at the peak of his powers when he sustained severe head injuries in a motorcycle accident in 1970.
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nuclear accident
That is not one nuclear accident every 10,000 years: it is one nuclear accident every 15½ years.
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regrettable accident
It is not considered that negligence can fairly be urged against anyone other than the victim of this regrettable accident.
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riding accident
He reexamined his choice after a near-fatal riding accident.
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serious accident
Interspersed with his numerous minor accidents will be an occasional serious accident.
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severe accident
The transport flasks are specially designed to withstand very severe accident conditions including a high temperature fire.
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sheer accident
By sheer accident, an empty trolley, nobody aboard, is starting to roll down a certain track.
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skiing accident
To have one's arm broken in a skiing accident is not to lose (or even just temporarily misplace) an arm in a skiing accident.
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terrible accident
While crossing the road, the boy is caught in a terrible accident, which critically injures him.
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tractor accident
He was out of professional baseball from 1942 to 1945 and lost the tip of his right index finger in a tractor accident.
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traffic accident
Suppose the case involved a traffic accident.
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tragic accident
It was a tragic accident.
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unfortunate accident
I am aware of this unfortunate accident.
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vehicle accident
We would be putting motor vehicle accident victims in a class apart.
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work-related accident
In a later case,27 again the insured died in a work-related accident.
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workplace accident
According to this widely held view, a life lost in a workplace accident and a (hypothetical) life lost due to arsenic in drinking water should be assigned the same value.
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