accident - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • prevent: Vehicles at work These pages are here to help you prevent vehicle accidents at work.
  • suffer: The ILO estimates 250 million people globally suffer a work-related accident each year and 3,000 workers are killed daily.

Adjective modifier

  • fatal: The first fatal motor accident in Redbourn was near The Chequers in 1908.
  • tragic: My daughter, in her mid 30's, recently lost her husband to a tragic accident.
  • serious: I had to come here several years ago for physio following a serious bicycle accident.
  • horrific: What is the connection between an old copy of Mary Shelley's Frankenstien and a horrific car accident?
  • work-related: Way to work-related accidents both loan remains the it sound too.
  • unfortunate: Similarly, when a human controller screws up and causes a train collision, we consider this an unfortunate accident.

Modifies a noun

  • blackspots: These new ones work on average speed over a certain distance, and so are completely useless for accident blackspots.
  • compensation: We can provide free and without obligation legal advice, and explain what making an accident compensation claim could mean for you.
  • prevention: The study focuses on accident prevention in children, especially in under-fives.
  • blackspot: Work on the accident blackspot is expected to take three or four weeks.
  • claim: Are you unsure whether you can make an accident claim, or how to go about it.. .
  • victim: Some time later, an ambulance was bringing an accident victim into the hospital.

Noun used with modifier

  • traffic: Do you know about my sister, whose husband died in a traffic accident, leaving her with three children?
  • motorcycle: To bringing all a motorcycle accident to film this.
  • road: The road accident rate is far higher than here.
  • freak: In a freak accident in February 1940, Leonard broke his neck.
  • automobile: Both children were killed in an automobile accident in 1913.
  • car: At least their son wouldn't be in a car accident on his way home.

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