The term accident names an inadvertent event, released by human or technical failure, often serious consequences.

In the legal context an accident is present, if suddenly from the outside involuntarily event a affecting an article or an organism causes a damage to lives, body or thing.

In the accident insurance the definition indicated above is extended by "accident" still by the following: ""… and a durable health damage and/or disablement to the consequence has. "

Meaningful organizations result out

• the surrounding field, in which the accident occurs, e.g.:

• • Household accident,
  • Traffic accident (e.g. Course accident, danger property accident, game accident, bad removing from the accident place, pretended traffic accident, caused accident for committing a Suizids, way to school accident, traffic accident for committing a Suizids).
  • Industrial accident and
  • Sport accident.

• from the kind of the event, e.g.

• • Fall
  • Collision and
  • Burn as well as

• from the kind of being to blame for
  • Own fault
  • Are to blame for and
  • higher force.

For insurance purposes the term is usually defined more closely; see accident insurance.

An accident is always the basis a cause of accident.

See also

• Pit accident (mining industry)
• Damage (right)
• First assistance
• Disasters of aviation
• Disasters of space travel
• Disasters of the navigation
• Disasters of the inland waterway craft travel
• Disasters in the rail traffic
• Disasters in the traffic
• Disasters in industry and power stations
• Disasters of chemistry
• List of events with nuclear material
• Bridge collapses; see bridge (must be still developed)
• Collapses of transmitting towers and transmitting poles; see under transmitting tower

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