Seconds Before The Accident is a live album by the alternative rock band Archers of Loaf released in 2000.

Seconds Before The Accident was recorded in November 1998 at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

In the liner notes it says, "...songs selected by band based on listenability."

The album was recorded during the band's final tour which supported their last studio album White Trash Heroes,[2] but was not released until two years later in 2000.

Pitchfork gave the album 7.0 (out of 10), stating "to fans, this will prove a fitting swansong, and excellent documentation for an experience lost to another time.