fender bender

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So much for the urban brotherhood of man: In “Crash,” there’s no getting through a fender bender, casual conversation, business transaction, phone call to mom or naked love romp without someone’s ancestry taking a nasty beating.

From Los Angeles Times

Major collisions wreak havoc for hours, and any fender bender or flat tire brings backups.

From Washington Post

Police dispatch recordings show that the officers were told, and acknowledged, that Ghaisar was the victim in the fender bender, but both officers said in their proffers in 2019 that they didn’t know that.

From Washington Post

Court records show that Ghaisar had been smoking marijuana as he headed south down the George Washington Memorial Parkway from McLean, and then drove away from a fender bender in Alexandria in which his Jeep stopped and was struck from behind by a Toyota Corolla.

From Washington Post

It was an unwarranted killing — an incident that began with a fender bender in which Ghaisar’s car was rear-ended by an Uber along the George Washington Parkway in Northern Virginia and was senselessly escalated by the officers.

From Washington Post