fatal crash

collocation in English

meaningsoffatalandcrash

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fatal
adjective
uk
/ˈfeɪ.təl/us
/ˈfeɪ.t̬əl/
A fatal illness, accident, etc. ...
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crash
noun[C]
uk
/kræʃ/us
/kræʃ/
an accident involving a vehicle, usually a serious one in which the vehicle is damaged or someone ...
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(Definition offatalandcrashfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffatal crash

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This is the thirdfatalcrashin three months and it has left us all shocked and dismayed.
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It was 1922 before an entire year ensued without afatalcrash.
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The reason for hisfatalcrashremains unclear.
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Both incidents are amazingly similar; the altimeter in thefatalcrashwas believed to have malfunctioned.
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No. 10, the plane stalled, went into a spin, and they narrowly avoided afatalcrash.
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The aircraft descended 450 feet, and observers braced themselves for afatalcrash.
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It was destroyed in afatalcrashless than a month later.
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First flying vertically in 1963, it suffered afatalcrashin 1964.
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After re-establishing the tracks to their former glory, anotherfatalcrashclaimed all the raw tracks and the band was again left with nothing.
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Per vehicle mile traveled, motorcyclists' risk of afatalcrashis 35 times greater than a passenger car.
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His second andfatalcrashoccurred one day before his twenty-fourth birthday.
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Thefatalcrashis however hampered by the thick branches of fir trees, so that the four men arrive, although injured, some seriously, but still alive on the ground.
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Williams faced a grand jury investigation into the cause of thefatalcrashand no criminal indictment was issued.
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A potentiallyfatalcrashwould seem imminent.
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Bublewicz'sfatalcrashcaused work on security.
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In recent years these have led to a spate of fatal crashes.
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Vehicle "incompatibility" is said to lead to more dangerous, fatal crashes, while "compatibility" can prevent injury in otherwise comparable crashes.
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This followed several incidents, including two fatal crashes, in which small private aircraft experienced loss of control when flying close behind the twinjet.
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