title: Accident (disambiguation)
text: # 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
  