car crash

British

noun

a collision between motor vehicles
informal something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity

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The family of a teenager who died in a car crash have described their "unimaginable" ordeal after being mistakenly told their son had survived.

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A mother whose son was killed in a car crash has said the government's proposed new road safety strategy is "not enough".

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A police force has admitted mixing up the identities of an 18-year-old killed in a car crash with another teenager who survived the collision.

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Those plans are now uncertain after Joshua was injured in a car crash in Nigeria that claimed the lives of two close friends.

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Anthony Joshua has posted on social media for the first time since he was injured in a car crash that killed two of his close friends in Nigeria.

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