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System accident

A system accident is what happens when a system or piece of technology malfunctions and breaks or stops working. It's like if your car suddenly stopped working while you were driving it. You would have to pull over and get it fixed before you could drive it again. System accidents can happen to any kind of technology, from a computer to a smartphone to even a power grid. They can also involve more than one system, like if your car's brakes and tires both stopped working at the same time. System accidents are usually caused by something going wrong with the system, like a problem with the hardware or software.Sometimes accidents happen because of human error or because something that the system was not designed to do was done wrong. When system accidents occur, people and computers may be injured, property could be damaged, and the system itself may not work anymore. That's why it's important to have safety protocols in place to make sure systems are correctly maintained and working properly so that system accidents don't happen.
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