collide

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Joshua, 36, was a passenger in a Lexus SUV that collided with a parked truck on the busy Lagos-Ibadan expressway, in south-west Nigeria, on Monday.

From BBC

Megathrust earthquakes typically occur relatively close to the Earth's surface, where tectonic plates collide.

From Science Daily

The timing was especially telling: the new outflows appeared in the images while NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was also detecting high-energy gamma rays, directly connecting the shock-powered radiation to those colliding streams.

From Science Daily

Here, the hot gas stretches much more from top to bottom, a clue that two clusters are colliding.

From Science Daily

Ghami and Ayodele died when the vehicle they were in, alongside heavyweight boxer Joshua and another passenger, collided with a stationary truck on a major road near Lagos.

From BBC