brooklyn1 wrote:

> I seriously doubt the word "crash" is used... much more likely the
> word would be *collision*. Police reports have always used collision,
> never crash/accident... accident is a judgement... sometimes
> collisions are on purpose. "Crash" is too vague/juvenile.

We use "crash" frequently (perhaps verbal laziness as we're not
concerned with legalese when talking about our patients at that point)
but you're right, the police use the term collision usually.