{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.accident","code":"thing-accident","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/accident/","name":"accident","alternateNames":["stroke","fortuity","chance event","hap","break","good luck","happy chance","coincidence","happenstance","lottery"],"kind":"thing","status":"published","version":"0.2.0-wave.3","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Activities and processes","entryKind":"noun.event","plane":"ACT","domain":["ACT.EVT"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{"substance":"activity","origin":"conceptual","agency":"inert","mobility":"not-applicable","scale":"not-applicable","affordances":["observable"]}},"whatItIs":"In the registry sense, anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause, a fortuity or chance event, whether unfortunate or lucky, as in a stroke of luck or a lucky break; the sense of an unintended harmful event such as a road or workplace accident is related but 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