car crash

noun

1. a collision between motor vehicles

2. informal,  something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity

Example Sentences

A delivery driver said he saw what first appeared to be a car crash before realising there was man with a knife.

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She had been referred to his private physiotherapy clinic in Gravesend by her insurance company, after sustaining a hip injury in a car crash.

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In 1991 American Steve Pate was injured in a car crash before the Ryder Cup started, and in 1993 Europe's Sam Torrance could not play on the Sunday because of an infected toe.

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In 1991, American Steve Pate sustained injuries in a car crash on the Wednesday before the event.

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"It's indicative of the whole sorry, terrible, tragic mess, and the car crash of our institutions that has led to us having a statutory public inquiry."

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