In AE, a collision between a motor vehicle and another vehicle, a pedestrian, or a fixed object such as a tree or telephone pole used to be (1960's and probably later) referred to universally as an "accident." However, some vehicle-safety activists objected that, especially when the driver was under the influence of alcohol or driving faster than the speed limit, such incidents were not accidental, but the foreseeable results of deliberate decisions to do drugs, drink too much, drink at all, drive too fast, etc. They crusaded for replacement of the word "accident" to describe such incidents, and the word became politically incorrect. Therefore, politically correct news media now use the word "crash" to describe what used to be called an "accident."
If you call a motor-vehicle collision an "accident," you are excusing driving too fast, driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or other reckless behavior and showing your nasty indifference to the physical and mental suffering of the true victims of this vicious behavior and of their relatives and friends. You probably drink and drive too fast yourself, deliberately heedless of the likely results. It is only by sheer luck that you haven't already killed dozens of people. You should be in jail to protect innocent careful drivers and pedestrians.
