Accident (disambiguation)
# 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
