The phrase "accident means" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when defining or explaining the term "accident" in a specific context.
Example: "In legal terms, an accident means an unforeseen event that results in injury or damage."
Alternatives: "an accident refers to" or "the definition of an accident is".
His young daughter votes on his behalf, but an accident means the ballot is not counted.
In such cases, "racing accident" means neither driver was clearly a bonehead.
The term "aircraft accident" means any aviation disaster, regardless of its cause or suspected cause, for which the National Transportation Safety Board is the lead investigative agency.
Beady Eye's exit from the festival following Gem Archer's accident means it's two strikes for Liam Gallagher at Chelmsford, following his Oasis no-show in 2009.
If confirmed, Sunday morning's accident means that at least 1,500 migrants have died so far in 2015 while on route to Europe – at least 30 times higher than last year's equivalent figure, which was itself a record.
A terrible, life-changing accident means Dr Strange must take a journey to Nepal, where he has heard that there is a guru – or necromancer, or cult leader – who can restore his physical abilities.
It should be, because local protests – driven partly by the 1986 Chernobyl accident – meant it never started operation.
Human beings are already animals; age, disease, and accident mean that all able-bodiedness is a temporary state.
Dr. Dale Dewar, executive director of Physicians for Global Survival, a group that advocates the abolition of nuclear arms, said the accident meant future generations would live in a world with higher levels of background radiation.
A panel set up by the country's nuclear energy commission said the severity of the accident meant it would take decades to remove melted fuel rods and decommission the plant, located 150 miles north of Tokyo.
Although up and about trainspotting on his bicycle within six weeks, this defining accident meant that he was technically unfit to take up a traffic apprenticeship with his beloved Southern Railway and so rise to managerial heights.
