The word “accident” is to be banned from the new edition of the Highway Code in an attempt to persuade drivers and police that someone is almost always to blame for a death or injury on the roads.
The Driving Standards Agency has deleted the word throughout the code and replaced it with “collision”, “crash” or “incident”.
But some motoring groups have objected to the move, saying that it will foster a blame culture and encourage the prosecution of drivers for casualties that they had no intention of causing.
Other changes in the language of the new code, which is being considered by Parliament and is due to be published this summer, include replacing references to “elderly people” with “older people”.
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