diff --git a/R/get.R b/R/get.R
index 7f71b06..ecec0e9 100644
--- a/R/get.R
+++ b/R/get.R
@@ -36,8 +36,10 @@
 #' @examples
 #' \donttest{
 #' if(curl::has_internet()) {
-#' x = get_stats19(2022, silent = TRUE, format = TRUE)
-#' class(x)
+#' col = get_stats19(year = 2022, type = "collision")
+#' cas2 = get_stats19(year = 2022, type = "casualty")
+#' veh = get_stats19(year = 2022, type = "vehicle")
+#' class(col)
 #' # data.frame output
 #' x = get_stats19(2022, silent = TRUE, output_format = "data.frame")
 #' class(x)
@@ -97,8 +99,9 @@ get_stats19 = function(year = NULL,
                       silent = FALSE,
                       output_format = "tibble",
                       ...) {
-  if(!exists("type")) {
-    stop("Type is required", call. = FALSE)
+  # Set type to "collision" if it's "accident" or similar:
+  if (grepl("acc", x = type, ignore.case = TRUE)) {
+    type = "collision"
   }
   if (!output_format %in% c("tibble", "data.frame", "sf", "ppp")) {
     warning(
@@ -130,12 +133,12 @@ get_stats19 = function(year = NULL,
              silent = silent)
   read_in = NULL
   # read in
-  if(grepl(type, "vehicles",  ignore.case = TRUE)){
+  if(grepl("veh", x = type, ignore.case = TRUE)){
     read_in = read_vehicles(
       year = year,
       data_dir = data_dir,
       format = format)
-  } else if(grepl(type, "casualty", ignore.case = TRUE)) {
+  } else if(grepl("cas", x = type, ignore.case = TRUE)) {
     read_in = read_casualties(
       year = year,
       data_dir = data_dir,
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-dl_stats19.R b/tests/testthat/test-dl_stats19.R
index d8e7cac..6703102 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-dl_stats19.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-dl_stats19.R
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ test_that("dl_stats19 works for no data_dir", {
   skip_download()
   # remove tempdir
   unlink(tempdir(), recursive = TRUE)
-  expect_message(dl_stats19(year = "2022", type = "collision"))
+  y = "2022"
+  t = "collision"
+  expect_message(dl_stats19(year = y, type = t))
   # tempdir created.
+  file = find_file_name(years = y, type = t)
+  expect_match(file, t)
 })