On December 8, 1987, an Israeli tank transport struck a Palestinian mini bus near Jabaliyya refugee camp in Gaza, killing four and injuring 10, and setting off demonstrations in Gaza the next day that are widely considered to mark the beginning of the first Palestinian Intifada. Such brief accounts as appear in the historical record of “the most consequential traffic accident in both Israeli and Palestinian history” can rarely avoid the question of whether it was indeed an accident, also in so far as these accounts set out to question the Israeli narrative of things. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research in the West Bank between 2014 and 2018, including Palestinian retrospectives on the 30 year anniversary of the uprising, my paper sets out to interrogate shifting Palestinian semeiotics of automotive accidentally and their underlying techno-political “narration of things,” so as to rephrase questions of historical agency and revolutionary subjectivity still adumbrated by the first Intifada. To this end, I read accounts surrounding the 1987 crash against a more recent phenomenology of auto-eventfulness in contemporary Palestine, set against the backdrop of an explosion of car ownership in the West Bank over the past decade. Drawing on legal case material, interviews and news material I treat legal and scholarly forensics of road death including a collision on 19 July 2017 between an Israeli truck in the northern West Bank and a van carrying Palestinian workers, five of whom were killed - alongside a spate of putative attacks by Palestinian motorists on Israelis, which gave rise in 2015 and 2016 to the terms Amaliyat Ad’das, Car Operations and Intifadat ad Da’as, Auto-Intifada. Through my reading of these events I seek to extend an understanding of accidental, collateral violence as a characteristic modality of the violence of late capitalism, while also exploring how the very form of the accident may come to host new forms of insurgent eventfulness. How, I ask more broadly, can an interrogation of Palestinian auto-motion in multiple registers help us rethink 'agency' not as the sovereign act of liberal fantasy, but as a leap-into the always-already of the accidental? How might an attentiveness to the modalities of Palestinian “narratives of things” impart new sense to Michel Foucault’s much quoted admission, that “[a]t the root of what we know and what we are lies neither truth nor being, but the exteriority of the accident.”?