Stop, look and listen before you use the verb to see.

In editing Geist, we discourage reports that abstract nouns or periods of time have seen things: “1999 saw rising panic about the coming of Y2K”; “It was a policy that saw decreased funding for libraries”; and so on. Not long ago a radio broadcaster presented news of “an accident that saw a truck plunge over a bridge.” The verb to see has a lot of interesting meanings—to observe, to meet, to deduce, to understand, even to escort—but the meaning implied in these examples (whatever that meaning may be) isn't one of them.