The phrase "accident death" is not correct and sounds awkward in written English.
It may be intended to refer to a death resulting from an accident, but it is not a standard expression.
Example: "The report detailed the circumstances surrounding the accident death of the driver."
Alternatives: "fatal accident" or "death by accident".
Puerto Rico's auto accident death rate is 2.2 times higher than that of the United States.
How optimistic are you that self-driving cars will cut into the auto accident death toll?
Another road accident death is reported the following day, as is an update on an armed robbery arrest.
Montana had the highest motor vehicle accident death rate, and the Postal Service handled fewer first-class letters than in any year since at least 1990.
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By the weekend before last, deaths of all kinds, all of them awful, had occurred — death by accident, death by friendly fire, death by ambush, death of American prisoners of war, possibly by execution at the hands of Iraqis, and civilian death caused by coalition forces.
Sunday's five road accident deaths (Report, 15 April) just means it was an average day.
By contrast, most road accident deaths involve the young and the healthy and all are preventable.
Pedestrian deaths comprise more than 35% of road accident deaths, mostly as a result of pedestrian-vehicle crashes.
The article also misstated the number of auto accident deaths among the eight other people that North Korea acknowledges having abducted.
In all, she said she had discovered more than two dozen cases in which Ford Explorers with Firestone tires were being blamed for up to 30 accident deaths.
