noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a car crash/accident ( also a car wreck American English )
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He was involved in a car crash.
a road accident
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Her husband was killed in a road accident.
a serious accident
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He is recovering from a serious accident.
a traffic accident
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He’s been involved in a traffic accident.
accident and emergency
accident blackspot (= where there are a lot of road accidents )
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an accident blackspot
accident insurance
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You also get free travel accident insurance if you pay for your tickets with a credit card.
accident prone
an accident inquiry
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The accident inquiry revealed that the accident had been caused by human error.
an accident/crash victim
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The crash victims were rushed to hospital.
cause an accident
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75% of accidents are caused by speeding.
crime/accident/fire etc prevention
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Effective crime prevention must be our main goal.
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a fire prevention officer
fatal accident/illness/injury etc
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a fatal climbing accident
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If it is not treated correctly, the condition can prove fatal be fatal .
freak accident
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He was crushed to death in a freak accident .
horrific crash/accident/attack etc
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a horrific plane crash
industrial accident/injury (= happening at work )
involved in an accident (= he is one of the people in an accident )
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I’m afraid your son’s been involved in an accident .
nasty accident
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He had a nasty accident while riding in the forest.
prevention of accidents
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Educating new drivers is important for the prevention of accidents.
unfortunate accident
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an unfortunate accident
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
fatal
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Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.
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In these early days a flying career was not particularly attractive in view of the frequency of fatal accidents .
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Damages in fatal accident cases are likely to be substantial and should not be underestimated.
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An exhaust leak from an O-ring seal in a right booster motor was blamed for the fatal 1986 Challenger accident .
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The Highlands has one of the highest suicide rates in the country and is plagued by huge numbers of fatal accidents .
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None of the eight other fatal accidents claimed by the villagers has been recognised by the government.
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Forty-five percent of fatal road accidents involving young people are alcohol-linked, and so are drowning and deaths from accidental overdose.
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Blaming terracing alone for the tragedy is rather like banning cars after a fatal accident .
freak
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It had been a freak accident .
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Call it a freak accident and, hopefully, be done with it and race on.
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In the same year, as the result of a freak accident in the Alps, Steve's friend Georges Bettembourg perished.
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My parents had died when I was five, in a freak car accident .
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Six years ago Stephen Dent was paralysed in a freak accident .
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I spent all afternoon full of animosity towards him - and then he died in that freak accident .
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Apparently nobody was injured in this freak accident .
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Betty beheaded by hotpot ladle in freak accident . 2.
horrific
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William Bird's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver.
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She shot down stairs faster than she had moved for thirty years, her head full of horrific accidents .
industrial
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Is the company improving its industrial accident record?
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You had an industrial accident but it was never treated as one.
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This scheme was replaced in 1946 by a state scheme for victims of industrial accidents and prescribed industrial diseases.
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I wondered if he was gingerly admitting that his plant had a problem with industrial accidents .
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The rate of industrial accidents was horrific.
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They are the victims of auto accidents , industrial accidents, falls from cliffs, fires, fights, stabbings, shootings.
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The waste is the most toxic remains of the industrial accident at Seveso in 1976.
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The only place where official statistics have been released for industrial accidents is Shenzhen.
major
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By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
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No major accidents occurred in Tempe or Mesa during the outage, police said.
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Earlier this month the MoD repeated its claim that transporters are designed to withstand major accidents .
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If it is a major accident to a wide bodied jet he could send them all.
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Spencer waved vigorously to avert a second major accident and was eventually spotted and taken on board.
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The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents .
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This reflects an aversion which is attached by society to major accidents or dread consequences, e.g. cancer.
nuclear
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There's been a nuclear accident , savvy?
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On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
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By contrast, the chances of a major nuclear accident resulting in 100 fatal cancers was set at one in a million.
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Likewise, the scare associated with the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island was blown out of proportion.
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As had happened in previous nuclear accidents , the operators misread the situation.
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Life goes on, despite nuclear accidents and the collapse of the Soviet empire.
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First and most significant is the possibility of some kind of nuclear war or accident that would destroy the human race.
serious
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But it could mean the difference between financial security and financial disaster for you and your family should a serious accident strike.
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The reason is that serious accidents are so infrequent, safety experts said.
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According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur.
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He invented a serious accident for his wife as an excuse not to see Eleanor for a while.
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Subsequently, a serious accident at the company's water-theme park in Surrey had a detrimental effect on its public profile.
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But a serious accident can cause far more than purely physical damage.
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But serious accidents can and do happen every day of the year.
tragic
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Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.
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The jury saw this case exactly as it is: It was a tragic accident , not a murder.
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Was this the moment to ask about Emily's brother, Tom, and the tragic accident ?
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I have no reason to believe at this time that this was anything more than a terribly tragic accident .
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Coroner David Gibbons said he was satisfied that Mr Pollards death was was a tragic accident .
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If that is acceptable, why not create a clone of a child who was lost in a tragic accident ?
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It's a very tragic accident .
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The biggest incident in which he has been involved was tragic double fatal accident in which two young girls died.
unfortunate
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He was called in at short notice due to the unfortunate motor accident involving Design Director, Bill Naysmith.
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Since the unfortunate accident to your father, I have had the strangest presentiments concerning you, at times.
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Although thousands of children are killed or injured each year in unfortunate accidents , something made this case special.
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Last Friday's unfortunate accident left the club with no alternative.
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It was a very unfortunate accident .
■ NOUN
auto
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Look, no one wants to be involved in an auto accident .
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In 1996, 345 people were killed in auto accidents in Nevada, up from 310 in 1995.
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The auto accident is the most absurd of all adversary proceedings.
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For this reason a number of states have adopted no-fault systems for settling personal injury claims arising from auto accidents .
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Something like 40,000 people are killed in auto accidents every year.
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This time it was Alderman Wagner, in an auto accident .
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The auto accident occurred in 1986 and left her in a coma for three days with a ruptured aorta and damaged liver.
automobile
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Killed last year in an automobile accident .
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After an automobile accident , Sayegh, had the red truck repainted.
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Case No. 8: 40 year-old woman sustained crushing compound fracture of two fingers in an automobile accident .
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Her neck was broken in an automobile accident 13 years ago.
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This young guy has an automobile accident - they take him to hospital - his wife breaks down and cries.
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Von Halem is recovering from an automobile accident .
car
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Louise Davies, 23, from Bootle, lost her son Peter in 1990 in a car accident .
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She had no more car accidents .
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Luke told me that she died in a car accident some time ago.
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Their concert also honors late bassist and composer Sean Kelly Ball, who was killed in a car accident on February 28.
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In that case the plaintiff had been involved in a car accident .
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Others noted that his mental condition had deteriorated two years ago, when he was in a serious car accident .
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An obvious example would be a painting called Bald Eagle, made in 1955, one year before the car accident .
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There had been two car accidents .
investigation
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The Department of Transport's marine accident investigation branch has started an inquiry.
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I expect shortly to receive reports from the marine accident investigation branch of a number of recent fishing vessel accidents.
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There remain the specialists who look after the flight recorder side of aircraft accident investigation .
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Air accident investigations will take months.
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There are 30 courses dedicated to specific safety issues, such as handling portable gas cylinders, food hygiene and accident investigation procedures.
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The truth is that aircraft accident investigation should be carried out in a completely impartial and objective manner.
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The wreckage was then taken to the air accident investigation unit at Farnborough.
prevention
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After all our lectures, they still don't think accident prevention applies to them.
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A lax attitude to accident prevention can not be justified by the perennial excuses of financial hardships and pressure from high work-loads.
rate
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In recent years, the pedestrian accident rate for children has improved relative to that for adults.
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There are so few accidents that comparing accident rates is not statistically valid.
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Contractor recordable and lost time accident rates were also a fraction of the industry average.
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But all of this may do little to dent the accident rate .
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Mr Riley, for Bioplan, said the accident rate on Hollyhurst Road was lower than the national average.
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But what we found was that that was the point when the accident rate began to go up.
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So what are greater congestion, higher accident rates , and worse air pollution compared to the freedom to drive?
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Blot said the upgrade has sliced Harrier accident rates in half.
report
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The accident reports had been kept secret.
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Photographs, a sketch plan and any police accident report book are receivable in evidence at trial.
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Study the airline accident reports and you will realise the truth of this.
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But from now on, whenever I read an accident report , I shall be slightly less blasé.
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Health and safety Executive's five year fatal accident report gives rise for concern.
road
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Death crash: A man died last night following a road accident between Brompton and Darlington.
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One in seven road accidents is caused by drivers falling asleep at the wheel.
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It is estimated that there are 6.5 to 8.5 million pavement accidents perannum, many more than road accidents.
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Normally you see these kinds of injuries with victims of road accidents .
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Rose lost the use of her legs in a road accident 15 years ago.
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In 1990, 13 people were killed and 922 injured in 739 road accidents .
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A total of nine hundred and thirty eight road accidents happened between January and June.
traffic
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Of those calls, 16 were to road traffic accidents and of that 16 the longest response time was 18 minutes.
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Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident .
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S., for example, there are 1, 844, 000 alcohol-related traffic accidents a year.
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Fifty two people died in traffic accidents in the first eight months of this year on the roads of Merseyside.
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And the second story that night was all about a one-car traffic accident , with sketchy details about injuries.
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Consider the problems of traffic accidents more closely.
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Emergency admissions as a result of road traffic accidents or falls on icy pavements can not be arranged.
victim
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He had seen similar symptoms before on road accident victims .
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At Advanced Tissue, research has focused on replacement parts for accident victims or other patients.
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It's a message echoed by doctors and accident victims alike, as Kim Barnes reports.
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The Cosbys are getting a dose of what families of homicide and fatal accident victims get routinely.
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Psychological counselling may help accident victims like Richard Eaton cope better with the flashbacks.
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Outside, a small but determined lobby of supporters, including the first accident victim to be saved by the air ambulance.
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It features actress Denise Douglas, 18, as a hideously injured road accident victim .
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The previous transplants had come from accident victims and were rejected within days.
■ VERB
cause
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They're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents .
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However, its only motion is to rotate, so it can hardly have caused the accident .
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Daytime drowsiness and associated sleep disorders can affect the quality of your life and can cause accidents , especially among drivers.
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They caused lethal accidents , made noises at the wrong time, and froze when action was required.
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In fact I cause a car accident by obstructing some one's driveway.
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Human deaths from snake bites are caused mainly by accident .
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Scooter Hire Most holiday injuries we see are caused by scooter accidents .
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Loss or damage caused by accidents is not generally included, though you may be able to claim under some other section.
die
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A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.
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On February 11, 1988, their eldest child, Nicky, died in a motorcycle accident .
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Perhaps, in an exceptional year, several might, or a few may replace brothers or sisters who die by accident .
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His father died in a hunting accident during the war.
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And many more died from accidents .
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A son had died in a highway accident and the other daughter lived in Califor-nia.
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New Jersey passed a law requiring helmets for scooter riders after a 6-year-old died following an accident .
follow
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The end of the Mille Miglia came in 1957, following an accident which resulted in the loss of 13 lives.
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Death crash: A man died last night following a road accident between Brompton and Darlington.
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Repairs Please contact us following any accident damage to your caravan.
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A much smaller increase in premium where you loose your no claims bonus following an accident than with most other insurers.
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We will also insure you in the same way following an accident involving any trailer while attached to your motor cycle.
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She has needed four brain operations following the accident on the town's Berwick Hills estate.
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It was Friday morning, following the accident .
happen
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That this should happen is no accident according to Modigliani and Miller.
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Such communities do not happen by accident .
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In most cases, what happened was an accident .
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It does not happen by accident .
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If it had happened in a car accident and had been some one else's fault, perhaps I would've been bitter.
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Herbert 92X refused to accept a plea bargain, since he regarded what had happened as an accident .
injure
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No one was injured in the accident on the A684 at Scruton crossroads.
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More children are killed or seriously injured by vehicle accidents and being unrestrained than any other childhood accident that can be prevented.
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Time allowed 00:22 Read in studio Four people have been injured in an accident in thick fog.
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Schumacher was not injured in the accident and climbed out of the cockpit unassisted.
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In 1990, 13 people were killed and 922 injured in 739 road accidents .
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The plaintiff's husband was injured in an accident at work.
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The aunt, possibly, of a girl who had been injured in the accident .
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The two-year-old tabby was horrifically injured in a road accident .
involve
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Women hurt: Two women were taken to hospital after their car was involved in an accident in Easington Road, Hartlepool.
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Mark John Haugo was involved in a near-fatal accident in 1990 that has left him handicapped.
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He could have been involved in an accident .
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Look, no one wants to be involved in an auto accident .
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A van driver involved in the accident has been charged with causing death by careless driving.
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Michelle Howard has spent her legal career helping clients involved in medical accidents .
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Bicycle riders are exposed and vulnerable, and when they are involved in accidents their machines give them virtually no protection.
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The vehicle was involved in an accident in which the plaintiff's van was damaged.
kill
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There is a one-in-328 chance of an employee being killed in accident while working on the nation's farms.
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Their concert also honors late bassist and composer Sean Kelly Ball, who was killed in a car accident on February 28.
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For he was not killed in a car accident .
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Brad Joss, civil engineer, killed in a vehicle accident in Sonoma County on Jan. 4, 1994.
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Her 32-year-old partner, Nas, was killed in a motorcycle accident on 10 July, 1998.
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They were two of three snowboarders killed in accidents in the Lake Tahoe area in just one week.
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I mean, a whopping 82 per cent of people who were killed in car accidents had not been smoking cannabis.
meet
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This will mentioned a child that would be born later; this was Oliver, the child you met later by accident .
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Ian Barnes, Jessie's cousin, had also gone to Social Services that day and they met by accident .
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And the girl comes to see me - has been comin' ever since I met with the accident last year.
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You're going to meet with an accident , Mr Chan, and so is your son.
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Occasionally we would meet by accident in the corridor or at a bend in the stairs or out in the street.
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But I met one girl by accident when I walked into the hostel one night and she was visiting another girl there.
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Was it in there that she met with her accident ?
occur
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Many more tragic and fatal accidents have occurred there.
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She had been sitting in the first row near center ice Wednesday night when the accident occurred .
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These refer to victims of road accidents occurring throughout Lothian and not necessarily in the eligible areas themselves.
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When an accident occurs , the county comes along the next day and grades the road.
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According to a report commissioned by Greenpeace, a serious accident could occur .
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On April 26, 1986, a nuclear accident occurred at Chernobyl in the Soviet Union.
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With the end of the season in sight it is always worthwhile looking at the trends in diving accidents that have occurred .
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The accident occurred Saturday on a little-used mountain road full of dangerous curves.
prevent
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Now safety experts are targetting hundreds of companies to prevent accidents and deaths in the workplace.
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Air bags are 100 % effective in preventing injuries due to accidents .
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Obviously knowledge as well as self-discipline is necessary to prevent accidents and maintain a safe environment.
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Caltrans officials say the project will help prevent passing-related accidents on the two-lane mountain road.
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Planning does not prevent useful accidents .
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To prevent any such accident , the king ordered that no flax or hemp should ever come into his castle.
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But this small orange box produced by a Thame company could help prevent such accidents in the future.
reduce
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It was expected that identifying and resurfacing slippery roads would reduce skidding accidents by 1800 a year.
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But the farm did make some changes in picking practices to reduce accidents .
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He said the buses would cut air pollution and reduce sheep deaths from accidents with cars.
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And the question of efficiency, whether imposing such liability would reduce accidents or contribute to a more efficient use of resources.
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One of the aims of this proposal would be to reduce the number of accidents at work involving young people.
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We believe we can reduce accidents by using this equipment.
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The commercial incentive to reduce minor incidents therefore goes hand in hand with incentives to reduce major accidents .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a chapter of accidents
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Such a chapter of accidents, however ridiculous in modern eyes, epitomised a genuinely important aspect of international relations.
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The problem with Darwin's theory was that it reduced evolution to a chapter of accidents.
meet with an accident
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You're going to meet with an accident, Mr Chan, and so is your son.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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As usual, the fog and icy roads had led to several very nasty accidents.
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Both her parents had been killed in a car accident .
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Brussels airport was closed today after an accident on the runway.
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His best friend was killed in a skiing accident .
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I'm really sorry about breaking your camera - it was an accident .
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I only met her again through a fortunate accident .
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It is no accident that most of the country's outstanding public schools are in wealthy communities.
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Men have twice as many fatal accidents as women do for every mile they drive.
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Most serious accidents in the home involve electrical equipment or hot liquids.
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Robert had an accident in the lab. He was opening a bottle of acid and he spilt some on his hands.
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She has been in almost constant pain since her accident .
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She was in an automobile accident , but she's not seriously hurt.
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Teenage boys tend to drive wildly and often have accidents.
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The accident happened on Interstate 84, during the evening rush hour.
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The number of fatal accidents in the construction industry has dropped dramatically in recent years.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 47-year-old man died after an accident involving a 17-ton loading shovel at the Redland Aggregates site at Barham.
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Homicide is 28 times greater and car accidents are 45 ti mes greater.
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Improvements in technology do not come by accident .
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My parents had died when I was five, in a freak car accident .
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Sometimes when he was playing in the house, he would bump into his father by accident .
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The data for risk ratings and accident estimates were considered separately and are plotted in Figures 4.1 and 4.2 respectively.
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Voters rejected measures to ban most lawsuits resulting from car accidents, limit shareholder lawsuits and slash lawyers' contingency fees.