Accident is a town in Garrett County, Maryland, United States.

Though the origin or meaning of the name is unknown, one popular story says that Brooke Beall and William Deakins, Jr.,[a] friends from Prince George's County, were conducting separate surveys in the area at the time and "by accident" Deakins claimed land already surveyed by Beall.

[1][8] When Lord Baltimore opened up the area, which he called Monocacy Manor, for settlement, in the early 1770s, Brooke Beall secured permission to survey 778 acres (315 hectares; 1.216 square miles).

He was to begin "in the center between two bounded white oak trees, standing on the North Side of the South fork of Bear Creek in or near a glade about one Hundred yards from said Run, about one or two Miles above a Lick known by the name of the "Cole Mine Lick", about four miles (6.4 km) above the mouth of Broad Creek and about one mile (1.6 km) East of a Ridge of the Negro Mountain."

The American Revolutionary War intervened, and it was not until February 15, 1786, that the land was granted by means of a patent to William Deakins.

[b] Kaese Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.

[10] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.49 square miles (1.27 km2), all land.

One state-maintained highway, U.S. Route 219, serves the town directly, following Main Street through the middle of Accident.

To the north, US 219 connects Accident to Interstate 68 and U.S. Route 40, along with the town of Grantsville, before heading into Pennsylvania.