The phrase "attributed the accident" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the cause or responsibility for an accident, often in a formal or analytical context.
Example: "The investigation attributed the accident to a mechanical failure in the aircraft."
Alternatives: "assigned blame for the accident" or "ascribed the accident to".
Police attributed the accident to slick roads.
He has attributed the accident to confusion caused by two medicines, Ambien, a sleep aid, and Phenergan, for gastric distress.
The industry commission attributed the accident to an electrical flaw in the electronic flight control system, documents show.
Although he was not seriously injured, Raschini, now 42, attributed the accident to a lack of familiarity with the track.
Government reports after the shooting attributed the accident in part to language barriers that prevented the pilot from understanding the orders.
SpaceX's founder, Elon Musk, in a tweet to his two million followers, attributed the accident to a "slower than expected throttle valve response".
In the end, both investigations attributed the accidents to a similar array of causes, including scheduling pressures, flawed communications, a largely "silent" safety-assurance system and a mistaken belief that the shuttle could be considered a routine operational vehicle instead of the finicky experimental vehicle that it really is.
Attributing the accident to a "serious engineering failure," they said victims might still be trapped in the rubble.
For example, if we see a stranger trip and fall, we might attribute the accident to that person's clumsiness when in fact he tripped because the ground gave way beneath him.
Experts attribute the accidents to a deadly combination of bad roads, chaotic traffic, poorly enforced safeguards, badly trained bus drivers and a lack of political will to address the problem.
WORST PERFORMANCE ON THIN ICE With the Olympic world and others mourning the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, the International Luge Federation chose to conduct a quick investigation and issue a late-night communiqué on the day of Kumaritashvili's death that attributed the training accident entirely to pilot error and maintained the competition the next morning.
