• Examples include accidents resulting from lightning or storms, perils of the sea, inundations or earthquakes, or sudden illness or death. Unavoidable accident has been considered a means of avoiding both civil and criminal liability.
— Also termed inevitable accident; pure accident; unavoidable casualty. Cf. ACT OF GOD. [Cases: Automobiles 201(10); Negligence 440. C.J.S. Motor Vehicles § 517; Negligence§§ 66–68, 209.]