fender bender

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The video of Ghaisar’s shooting paints a clear and complete portrait of a pair of hotheaded officers who needlessly escalated a fender bender on the George Washington Memorial Parkway into a fusillade of bullets aimed at the head of Ghaisar, a 25-year-old accountant with no criminal record.

From Washington Post

It was Ghaisar’s own car that was rear-ended, lightly, in the fender bender.

From Washington Post

In November 2017, Vinyard and Amaya began pursuing Ghaisar, 25, down the George Washington Memorial Parkway after he had left the scene of a fender bender in Alexandria in which he was struck from behind.

From Washington Post

Ghaisar, a 25-year-old accountant who had no weapon, was driving on the George Washington Memorial Parkway when he was rear-ended in a fender bender, then kept driving.

From Washington Post

“After so many years of the Knickerbockers being an accident waiting to happen, you didn’t really watch them — you rubbernecked them, like you would a fender bender on the West Side Highway,” said Steve Somers, the popular radio host for WFAN.

From New York Times