car crash
Britishnoun
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a collision between motor vehicles
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informal something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity
Example Sentences
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Diesel and Rodriguez posed with fellow actor Jordana Brewster and the daughter of late co-star Paul Walker, who died in a car crash in 2013, at the French film festival Wednesday.
From Barron's • May 13, 2026
John says at first the changes were attributed to the menopause, but in March 2023 he noticed his wife had become more irrational and did not react as expected when she had a car crash.
From BBC • May 6, 2026
President Claudia Sheinbaum said two Americans who died in a car crash appeared to be working jointly with Mexican police, a potential violation of the law.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
It wasn’t like the high school ex-boyfriend who died in a car crash, or the grandparent who went into an ICU and didn’t come out.
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2026
He’d lived with the Dursleys almost ten years, ten miserable years, as long as he could remember, ever since he’d been a baby and his parents had died in that car crash.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
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