Or had it been a real accident, one that had planted the seed of this idea to begin with?

Could his first hypothesis of a real accident be correct after all?

You can't help real accidents once in a while in this racket.

This place is a real accident waiting to happen.

The ideas exchanged during the competition will be put into practise by crews when next they deal with a real accident.

He didn't know which way it was, the tire iron or a real accident, blood choking down Jack's throat and nobody to turn him over.

Well, I'd say I have three good reasons to think it was no real accident.

The Monsters did not know the cause; they thought it was a real accident.

We haven't had a real accident before this one.

Consequently, the action seems almost to take place in slow motion, the way real accidents are sometimes experienced.