Accident (disambiguation)

An accident is an unexpected and unintended event.

Accident or accidents may also refer to:

Principal word senses

• Accident, an unintended, normally unwanted event not directly caused by humans
  • Unintended consequences, also sometimes called accidents, outcomes not foreseen and intended by purposeful action
• Accident (philosophy), the counterpart of essence; traits existing nonessentially
• Accident (fallacy)
• Accident (geology)

People

• Accident, a person born from an unintended pregnancy (the term is used in both derogatory and nonderogatory ways)

Places

• Accident, Maryland, a town in the United States of America

Arts, entertainment, and media

Film

• Accident (1928 film) (Polizeibericht Überfall), a German film directed by Ernö Metzner
• Accident (1967 film), a British film directed by Joseph Losey, with a screenplay by Harold Pinter based on the novel by Nicholas Mosley
• Accident (1976 film), a Romanian film directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu
• Accident (1985 film), a Kannada film directed by Shankar Nag
• Accident (2008 film), an Indian film directed by Ramesh Aravind
• Accident (2009 film), a Hong Kong film directed by Soi Cheang
• Accident (2012 film), a Bengali film directed by Nandita Roy & Shiboprosad Mukherjee
• Accident (2013 film), a Nigerian film directed by Teco Benson
• Accident, a 2017 South African film starring Roxane Hayward

Literature

• Accident (Mosley novel), a 1965 novel by writer Nicholas Mosley, later adapted into the film, Accident (1967)
• Accident (novel), a 1994 novel by Danielle Steel

Music

• Accident, a 1982 album by British bass guitarist and composer John Greaves
• "Accident", a song by Saint Etienne from Reserection EP, later remixed as "He's on the Phone"
• "Accidents", a song by Thunderclap Newman from Hollywood Dream
• "Accidents", a song by Alexisonfire from Watch Out!

Television

• "Accident" (Bottom episode), an episode of 1990s British sitcom Bottom
• "Accident", an episode of the British sitcom Only When I Laugh

See also

• The Accident (disambiguation)