Adult seen on closed-circuit: “I damage car maybe - it’s not on purpose” (8)
I believe the answer is:
accident
'car maybe it's not on purpose' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.
'adult seen on closed-circuit i damage' is the wordplay.
'adult' becomes 'a' (abbreviation).
'seen on' says to put letters next to each other.
'closed circuit i' becomes 'cci' (this could be a standard abbreviation which I don't know about).
'damage' becomes 'dent' (dent is a kind of damage).
'a'+'cci'+'dent'='ACCIDENT'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for accident that I've seen before include "Contretemps" , "Mishap, misadventure" , "Unexpected incident" , "Unexpected and unplanned event" , "Fortune" .)