On the contrary, Japanese and Chinese versions do have it (and sounds more natural as a native speaker).
But this also avoids pointless wrangling over whether each accident should be called an accident, incident, disaster, terrorist attack, hijacking, etc.
FWIW, the Japanese/Chinese 事件 literally translates as "incident", which can be controversial in itself. For example, the Nanking Massacre is typically called the "Nanking Incident" (南京事件) in Japanese.
Growing movement in the automobile world:
> Before the labor movement, factory owners would say "it was an accident" when American workers were injured in unsafe conditions.
> Before the movement to combat drunk driving, intoxicated drivers would say "it was an accident" when they crashed their cars.
> Planes don’t have accidents. They crash. Cranes don’t have accidents. They collapse. And as a society, we expect answers and solutions.
> Traffic crashes are fixable problems, caused by dangerous streets and unsafe drivers. They are not accidents. Let’s stop using the word "accident" today.
* https://crashnotaccident.com
> When it comes to describing the behaviour of the drivers on our roads, we have a language problem. When you are speeding and hit something, you didn’t have an accident, you caused a collision. When you blow off a stop sign and T-bone someone else, you didn’t have an accident, you caused a crash. When you get behind the wheel drunk and drive into a tree, you did not have an accident; you got drunk and drove into a tree.
* https://driving.ca/auto-news/news/why-theres-no-such-thing-a...
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/08/24/when-...
I know it was satire and an exaggeration, but those stereotypes usually stem from a kernel of truth.
This appears to have undergone some sort of renaming in English too. What happened to "the Rape of Nanking"?
As an example, car crashes are now referred to as RTIs (road traffic incident), where they were RTAs when I was young.
I'm sure you could find some collisions that were caused deliberately (insurance fraud for example) but I'd be surprised they occurred so frequently to be worth changing the word.
You can see the official category in the tile of the investigation's report: "Report No: 1/1992. Report on the accident to BAC One-Eleven, G-BJRT, over Didcot, Oxfordshire on 10 June 1990"