what's the difference between accident and incident?

Question

i have a great confusion in both these terms. explain me please.

Answer 1

Accident:
-An accident is something going wrong unexpectedly. Physical examples include an unavoidable collision (including a person or object falling by chance). The term is also loosely applied to mean any undesirable outcome, even if it could have been avoided, such as getting injured by touching something sharp, hot, electrically live, ingesting poisons, or other injuries caused by lack of ordinary precautions.
-A sudden, unexpected, unusual, specific, violent, external event which results in a Loss.
-any occurrence which results in personal injury, disease or death, or property damage.

Technically, accidents do not include incidents where someone is at fault (e.g. negligent); for example, if someone fails to take reasonable precautions in the circumstances. If the results of such negligence were foreseeable, they were not accidental, and the negligent person can be held responsible for any consequences of such negligence. In an "accident", nobody can really be held liable because the event was unforeseeable or very unlikely (for example, if one's computer is knocked over by a friend unintentionally, it was accident; however, one could blame the friend for being careless).

Often, accidents are investigated so that we can learn how to avoid them in the future. This is sometimes called root cause analysis, but does not generally apply to accidents that cannot be predicted with any certainty. For example, a root cause of a purely random incident may never be identified, and thus future similar accidents remain "accidental."

Incident:
-a single distinct event
-An event that has caused or has the potential to cause damage to an organization's business systems, facilities, or personnel.
-An incident is an occurrence or event.

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Answer 2

Humm, very good question! Let's see, an accident is an unplanned event or circumstance between two or more material or physical things or beings whereas an incident is an unplanned event or circumstance of happening or scenario where material or physical things are irrelevant.
You can use both words in one sentence for example: "We saw an incident of an accident between a car and a truck".

Answer 3

An accident is something that is unplanned and which often has an unpleasant outcome, like a traffic accident.

An incident is just a minor event, something that happened.
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Answer 4

Accident = An unexpected and undesirable event, especially one resulting in damage or harm. Like a car crash.
Incident = something that occurs casually in connection with something else. Like an event or party

Answer 5

Actually i am not agree with you because many time accident were took place due to our negligence its not just unwanted or unexpected event.