Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Turkish term or phrase:
tek taraflı ölümlü trafik kazası
English translation:
unilateral traffic accident with casualty
Added to glossary by
Özden Arıkan
Mar 28, 2007 11:32
17 yrs ago
Turkish term
Netherlands
2 MA degrees and 32 years of experience
Native in: Dutch 
Works in: English to Dutch, Dutch
tek taraflı ölümlü trafik kazası
Turkish to English
Medical
Medical (general)
report of a road accident
I am translating a report of a road accident into Dutch, but since there are not many Turkish to Dutch translators on ProZ, I am asking this in Turkish-English.
Perhaps I am blind to the obvious :), but I am puzzled by the words 'tek taraflı' in this expression. I know that this usually means something like 'one-sided', but what does it mean in this context? Does it mean that one person got killed in the accident? Strangely enough, this does not become clear from the report itself.
Perhaps I am blind to the obvious :), but I am puzzled by the words 'tek taraflı' in this expression. I know that this usually means something like 'one-sided', but what does it mean in this context? Does it mean that one person got killed in the accident? Strangely enough, this does not become clear from the report itself.
Proposed translations
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unilateral traffic accident with casualty
It means that there is only one party involved in the accident and resulted in a death.
This may happen in a way that the driver loses the track and hit a tree or make a fly over a cliff etc.
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Thereby killing himself...
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I believe there is one more answer in my mind;
individual traffic accident "with casualty"
I see through the net there is a usage for individual traffic accident implying what you have meant. And also "accident with casualty"
You may opt to join these two phrases to specify the term you look for, such as "individual traffic accident with casualty".
This may happen in a way that the driver loses the track and hit a tree or make a fly over a cliff etc.
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Note added at 41 mins (2007-03-28 12:13:49 GMT)
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Thereby killing himself...
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Note added at 1 day55 mins (2007-03-29 12:27:56 GMT)
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I believe there is one more answer in my mind;
individual traffic accident "with casualty"
I see through the net there is a usage for individual traffic accident implying what you have meant. And also "accident with casualty"
You may opt to join these two phrases to specify the term you look for, such as "individual traffic accident with casualty".
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Comment: "Many thanks to all of you for your help!"
25 mins
ex-parte / unilateral
first of all you shall put virtual comma after "tek taraflı" which means ex-parte/unilateral, than for "ölümlü" means that the traffic accident caused casualties, from any side.
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1 hr
a traffic accident resulting in single-party death
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Another alternative : ''a traffic accident resulting in the death of one party''
http://www.lacriminaldefenseattorney.com/HitandRun.html
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Note added at 22 hrs (2007-03-29 10:22:02 GMT)
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Another alternative : ''a traffic accident resulting in the death of one party''
http://www.lacriminaldefenseattorney.com/HitandRun.html
Peer comment(s):
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serdar_000
40 mins
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teşekkür ederim.
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Taner Göde
: single-party, bence "lethal" da eklenebilir
21 hrs
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teşekkür ederim.
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Riza Cekirge
21 hrs
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teşekkür ederim.
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23 hrs
Tim Drayton
Cyprus
Cyprus
Native in English
Cyprus
English, not translationese
Native in: English (Variant: British) 
Works in: Turkish to English, German to English
Related KudoZ points
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16
single-party fatal accident
This is how the police in Singapore refer to this on the following web page:
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:-Bcl7rEtDOkJ:www.spf.go...
I understand a "single party" accident to be one in which only one party is involved like when somebody drives into a lamppost. Here the accident resulted in a fatality.
http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:-Bcl7rEtDOkJ:www.spf.go...
I understand a "single party" accident to be one in which only one party is involved like when somebody drives into a lamppost. Here the accident resulted in a fatality.
Peer comment(s):
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Mehmet Hascan
: Hi Tim, your sentence by itself doesn't specify the nature of the accident though.
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sorry, should be "single-party fatal traffic accident"
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1 hr
Alp Berker
United States
United States
Native in English
Works in field
United States
Advanced work in IT + Social Sciences
Native in: English
Works in: Turkish to English, Azerbaijani to English, English, and 4 more.
Related KudoZ points
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4
Accidental Single-Party Death
Another variation on the above.
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tek tarafli in my opinion would be best conveyed as a single-party. The rest of my answer is grammatical how the sentence would be translated in English.
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Accidental Single-Party fatality comes to mind also.
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tek tarafli in my opinion would be best conveyed as a single-party. The rest of my answer is grammatical how the sentence would be translated in English.
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Accidental Single-Party fatality comes to mind also.
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