[Tagging] road accident memorials

Craig Wallace craigw84+osm at gmail.com
Sun Jun 11 09:38:58 UTC 2023


On 2023-06-10 20:57, Greg Troxel wrote:
> Anne-Karoline Distel <annekadistel at web.de> writes:
>
>> I would say that memorial:cause=traffic_accident would leave the options
>> open whether the victim intended to die or not.
> OK but IMHO traffic_crash is better.  'accident' is an assertion of no
> blame, and there are messy issues of bad luck and negligence.   crash is
> objectively what happened.

Or "Road traffic collision". That is now the preferred, official term, 
used by the police and government etc (in the UK).




More information about the Tagging mailing list