They’re called some variant of “accident” in many languages. It’s the English sp...

verve_rat · on Oct 22, 2023

English speakers? Or American English speakers?

Here in NZ car accident is much more natural to say than car crash.

Although even that has subtleties.

"I got in to a car accident" would be the normal turn of phrase, but if remove the "car" and the "I" then crash becomes more likely: "There was a crash on State Highway 1".

dontlaugh · on Oct 22, 2023

That’s what I mean, the subset of English speakers that are unusual are the US ones, it seems.