The only problem, whatever we decide about the wording, if it includes "road" what do we do about the ones on bridges, where it's not clear whether the person died on the road or in the water?

Anne

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On 11/06/2023, 11:26 Craig Wallace <craigw84+...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 2023-06-10 20:57, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Anne-Karoline Distel <annekadis...@web.de> writes:
>
>> I would say that memorial:cause=traffic_accident would leave the options
>> open whether the victim intended to die or not.
> OK but IMHO traffic_crash is better. 'accident' is an assertion of no
> blame, and there are messy issues of bad luck and negligence. crash is
> objectively what happened.

Or "Road traffic collision". That is now the preferred, official term,
used by the police and government etc (in the UK).


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