Road Traffic Collision

[focus_mad]

(06-04-2010 07:43 PM)Admin Wrote:  

(01-04-2010 10:55 PM)focus_mad Wrote:  yaz may want to have alook at this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKzojYvXn20

A fire officer was arrested in america for arguing with the trooper over the positioning of the fire tender to provide a "safety zone"

Thats been dicsussed here before but in the restricted section. We decided that it was Americans being American

Sorry, don't have access so I didn't know..

[Monkeysox]

(21-01-2010 03:43 PM)Paulzx Wrote:  Of course driver error is the cause of most crashes. Nobody disputes that. Its still not done on purpose though so to me that makes it an accident.

Calling it a bloody collision instead of an accident is just playing around with words and makes no sense whatsoever. RTA/RTC same fucking thing. I see no sense in the reason for changing. Some spanner in an office with fuck all else to do with his time came up with this shite.

I always assumed it was for legal reasons that the term was changed.
I reckon a solicitor somewhere brought a dictionary into court and got his client off by pointing out the definition of an accident was... an unavoidable occurance... (before anyone jumps down my throat...I haven't looked it up)

Incidently this is the reason why medicolegal statements and medical notes now refer to wounds as wounds and not lacerations

I would always talk about RTA's (out of habit) but I probably always document RTC, as I'm not there to judge who was right and wrong. I'm there to treat the nice people and the scrotes with the same respect!

[foreign]

It originated in the uk i believe. It's somewhere on this site in relation to a pic of one of the investigation units.