Accident (disambiguation)
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An accident is an unexpected and unintended event.
Accident or accidents may also refer to:
Principal word senses
[edit]- Accident, an unintended, normally unwanted event not directly caused by humans
- Unintended consequences, also sometimes called accidents, outcomes not foreseen and intended by purposeful action
- Accident (philosophy), the counterpart of essence; traits existing nonessentially
- Accident (fallacy)
- Accident (geology)
People
[edit]- Accident, a person born from an unintended pregnancy (the term is used in both derogatory and nonderogatory ways)
Places
[edit]- Accident, Maryland, a town in the United States of America
Arts, entertainment, and media
[edit]Film
[edit]- Accident (1928 film) (Polizeibericht Überfall), a German film directed by Ernö Metzner
- Accident (1967 film), a British film directed by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley
- Accident (1976 film), a Romanian film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu
- Accident (1985 film), a Kannada film directed by Shankar Nag
- Accident (2008 film), an Indian film directed by Ramesh Aravind
- Accident (2009 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Soi Cheang
- Accident (2012 film), a Bengali film directed by Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee
- Accident (2013 film), a Nigerian film directed by Teco Benson
- Accident, a 2017 South African film starring Roxane Hayward
Literature
[edit]- Accident (Mosley novel), a 1965 novel by writer Nicholas Mosley, later adapted into the film, Accident (1967)
- Accident (novel), a 1994 novel by Danielle Steel
Music
[edit]- Accident, a 1982 album by British bass guitarist and composer John Greaves
- "Accident", a song by Saint Etienne from Reserection EP, later remixed as "He's on the Phone"
- "Accidents", a song by Thunderclap Newman from Hollywood Dream
- "Accidents", a song by Alexisonfire from Watch Out!
Television
[edit]- "Accident" (Bottom episode), an episode of 1990s British sitcom Bottom
- "Accident", an episode of the British sitcom Only When I Laugh