### misfortune | accident:

Physical accident
* are things like collisions , injuries , and falling.
+ Accident: Health
  * An 'accident' is when something goes wrong when it is not meant to. Physical accidents are things like collisions, injuries, and falling. Non-physical accidents are things like accidentally telling someone a secret, forgetting something important, or deleting an important computer file.

### misfortune | accident:

Road accident
* Many road accidents occur when people are returning from field work in a tired state.
* Most road accidents happen in daylight
  - result in mortality
* Some road accidents cause death
  - fractures
  - result in death
* are a common cause of death to raccoons
  - result of bad driving and poor roads
  - the leading cause of cassowary mortality in Queensland
* cost the country billions annually in loss of life and damage to property.
* remain a leading cause of injury and death for young drivers in Australia.

Serious accident
* Most serious accidents happen nearest home when a dog's only goal is to be safely back there
  - involve alcohol consumption
  - occur when descending, rather than ascending, steps
* are often the cruel price of carelessness and haste.
* can mean the spreading of dangerous radioactivity into the environment.
* cause damage.
* happen when more than one driver loses concentration.

### misfortune | accident:

Traffic accident
* Many traffic accidents occur every week involving dogs.
* are a large part of police officers job.
* are a leading cause of injury and death in Senegal
  - or even death
  - major cause of severe injuries in most countries
  - significant hazard in Saudi Arabia
* are one of the deadliest hazards our children face
  - leading causes of death in the United States
  - powerful negative events on a neighbourhood street
* are the leading cause of death for teens and young adults
  - disability and spinal cord injuries among youth
* are the number one cause of accidental death among young children
  - death for children, ages five to fifteen
* are the number one killer of citizens in the Republic of Turkey
  - teenagers in the United States today
* are, by far, the leading cause of death and injury among school-aged children.
* can make some people limit what they can do.
* cause more injuries to visitors than natural hazards.
* claim lives daily.
* draw crowds.
* happen all the time.
* hold the highest place regarding the cause of injuries.
* increase with more cars on the road, which in turn increases trauma patients.
* kill more people than illegal drugs or guns.
* occur far more frequently in Latin America than in most industrialized countries.
* resulting in serious injury or death to bus passengers are relatively rare events.

Vehicle accident
* Some vehicle accidents result in injuries.
* cause the majority of serious injuries in the field and on deployment.
* remain one of the leading causes of death and injury in Kosovo
  - the leading cause of children's accidental deaths
* very big problem around the world.

Work accident
* happen while an someone is working.
  * An accident at work is an external, sudden and violent event. Work accidents happen while an someone is working. It may cause the injury or death of the worker or someone else. For an accident to be a work accident, there must be a direct or indirect relationship of cause and effect between the accident and the work.

Calamity
* Calamities are misfortune
  - come in different forms
* can happen to anyone, sinner or righteous alike.
* is misfortune

Catastrophe
* are adversity
  - bifurcations between different equilibria, or fixed point attractors
  - many, and involve more than cataclysms
  - non-linear systems
  - the ways of achieving a new balance by stressed live systems
  - usually short in duration but widespread in their impact
* can often bring out the very best in people.
* is misfortune
* occur in open systems.