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Road collision reporting guidelines urge language caution

Guidelines urging journalists to avoid the use of the word “accident” when reporting on road collisions and refer to drivers rather than cars have been launched to change public attitudes with sensitive reporting. The guidelines, put together by journalist Laura Laker with the University of Westminster’s Active Travel Academy, have been finalised following a consultation on a draft version last year. They hope to create a new industry standard similar to the work done by Samaritans on suicide reporting. The Active Travel Academy described reporting of road safety issues and collisions as a “challenge and a dilemma” for journalists: “Death and injury on the road is not new but still matters.”

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