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Re: Should title be: Accident Investigation or Crash Investigation

Don Bischoff (domn@kingman.com)
Mon, 2 Dec 1996 04:26:09 -0500 (EST)

My departments has a team referred to as the Accident Investigation Team.

Within the department and in the prosecutors office, I refer to the team using Accident.
I believe with most others that usually, there is no Accident but a Collision

I started changing the term about a year ago and have had no problems. I also
found that when prosecuting a traffic case, it was best to refer to the incident
as a collision. victims and surviving famaily key in on the terms as juries do also.

Don Bischoff
domn@kingman.com

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