noimagination

Cherry picking. YOU skipped over this part: "lack of intention or necessity".

Again, you all are distorting the DEFINITION of accident. This is not opinion, or interpretation. This is the literal DEFINITION of a word.

Look, I get it. It is disturbing to realize that our lives are governed so much by happenstance, and it is comforting to deny the term "accident" and instead ascribe events to intention/malice/design. Whether or not the particular incident that is the subject of this thread is an "accident" is not yet determined, as far as I've read. But you don't get to change the definition of a word to fit your particular prejudices. Some accidents are preventable, others are not. That does not mean that preventable accidents are not accidents.

Sorry, but you and those that agree with you are simply wrong. Not only that, you are DEMONSTRABLY wrong.

Webster's dictionary definition:
1a: an unforeseen and unplanned event or circumstance. Their meeting was an accident.
b: lack of intention or necessity : CHANCE They met by accident rather than by design.
2a: an unfortunate event resulting especially from carelessness or ignorance was involved in a traffic accident.

American Heritage dictionary definition:
1.
a. An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm: an accident on the assembly line; car accidents on icy roads.
b. An unforeseen event that is not the result of intention or has no apparent cause: A series of happy accidents led to his promotion.

Cambridge Dictionary:
something bad that happens that is not expected or intended and that often damages something or injures someone:

Britannica Dictionary
1 : a sudden event (such as a crash) that is not planned or intended and that causes damage or injury
2 : an event that is not planned or intended : an event that occurs by chance

And so on.

Sorry, but YOU ARE WRONG. Absolutely, categorically, demonstrably WRONG.