If nothing else, an accident could destroy you while you're away from here.
An accident destroyed their vessel and made landing here necessary.
Books could not be near open flames, since one accident could destroy the whole building, and its collection.
An accident much common in this city destroyed it.
Or it may be that the accident destroyed a small portion of your brain - and I mean a really microscopic bit.
But the accident had destroyed any likelihood that he would become a law-abiding, contributing member of society.
Such an accident would destroy the shuttle and almost certainly the astronauts as well.
While the accident destroyed the Hindenburg, it didn't harm the base.
The one-in-a-million accident, that's never happened yet, did happen, and destroyed them.
Though he was eventually healed, this accident nearly destroyed his dream to become a sculptor.