> From: Chuck Strawser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Hello All, > Please stop using the word "accident" to describe "crashes." > This is a horrible tragedy, but it wasn't an "accident;" It's a clear > example of why most crashes are NOT accidents - a motorcyclist evading > police and driving at 100mph is almost inevitably going to end up crashing. > There's nothing unpredictable, and certainly nothing unpreventable, about it.
I happen to work on the system that posts scans of "accident" reports to the city web site, and have been meaning to ask our Police Dept. just why they keep using "accident" (it's even in the URL). It doesn't help that the Wisconsin state standard form is called a "Motor Vehicle Accident Report" (two misnomers - "motor" and "accident"). I remember an episode of "ER"; typical scene, kid on a stretcher, lots of high-tech med stuff, the patient is all wigged out because he cracked up his dad's prized classic Mustang. To help relax the kid, one of the nurses says "Kid, they're called 'accidents' for a reason." I felt like a sports fan, wanting to yell "throw the BALL!" at the screen, but instead say "DON'T SAY THAT!" Sadly, people get a lot of their "values" from programs like this, and they really should not have their "role model" characters saying things like that. (Sounds like something a certain defense attorney might say....) --------------- Paul T. O'Leary Desktop Insurgent Madison, WI USA _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
