Скачать или смотреть Chief Constable Jo Shiner, NPCC roads policing lead, calls the word 'Accident' to be scrapped

Jo Shiner, Chief Constable of Sussex Police and the National Police Chiefs' Council Lead for Roads Policing, tells us why she support's RoadPeace's Crash Not Accident campaign.

Collisions are commonly referred to as accidents, by the media and in day-to-day life. It’s something we’ve always done. But that doesn’t mean we have to continue to use this language. The word 'accident' suggests that something was unavoidable and beyond control, yet the majority of road crashes are preventable.

By continuing to use the word ‘accident’ we continue to normalise road crashes as inevitable occurrences; which of course, they are not.

RoadPeace, the national charity for road crash victims, is calling for society to abandon the word ‘accident’ when referring to a road collision. The word ‘crash’ is a far more appropriate word – it is does not imply guilt or innocence.

Next time, think crash, not accident. Because changing language is vital to changing attitudes.

Find out more: www.roadpeace.org/working-for-change/crash-not-accident