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car crash

noun

  1. a collision between motor vehicles
  2. informal.
    something or someone that has suffered ruin or calamity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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The sister of a teenager who died in a car crash is scared to learn to drive because of what happened.

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After a car crash in Lodi, the off-duty firefighter walked up to the other driver’s window and accused the person of not letting him pass on the freeway.

A man has died and six people have been injured after a late night car crash.

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Samantha died in a car crash in 2007, aged 28.

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As the family tried to come to terms with the loss of Gregg, they endured further heartbreak when Jennie, 28, a mother-of-one, was killed in a car crash near Bridlington, in East Yorkshire, on 18 February 2013.

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