keannu
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I'm not trying to touch a nerve, it might seem a bad example, so if you tell me it's bad, I will delete it.
I learned that accident is something coincidental that you didn't intend, while incident is something intended on purpose by a criminal or an attacker.
So most car accidents are called not car incidents as most of them were not intended. If 911 was intended by the terrorist, then it's called an incident, but from the victims' point of view, as they didn't intend it, it could be called an accident from their position.
If you had an event that is harmful damaging you but that was intended not by you but by the attacker, do you call it accident or incident?
I learned that accident is something coincidental that you didn't intend, while incident is something intended on purpose by a criminal or an attacker.
So most car accidents are called not car incidents as most of them were not intended. If 911 was intended by the terrorist, then it's called an incident, but from the victims' point of view, as they didn't intend it, it could be called an accident from their position.
If you had an event that is harmful damaging you but that was intended not by you but by the attacker, do you call it accident or incident?