What do you exactly understand by a 'grinding' car crash?
I can understand that it's a very bad car crash.
I can understand that it's a very bad car crash.
a 'grinding' car crash
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Probably that there was severe damage to the cars...as if they were ground together.
More context is needed. A "grinding" collision could be a now-speed sideswiping that did not do a lot of damage and would not be considered to be a "very bad" collision.
Yes, I see and I can hear the noise of the 'grinding'.
I can't give you a lot of context. It is from a title of a newspaper article ("Officer killed in grinding car crash")
The car in the picture looked like a complete write-off.
Actually, the question was asked by a native speaker in the German forum who wanted to have a good translation in German. The thing is I can't find a good German expression if I don't get the exact idea.
I can't give you a lot of context. It is from a title of a newspaper article ("Officer killed in grinding car crash")
The car in the picture looked like a complete write-off.
Actually, the question was asked by a native speaker in the German forum who wanted to have a good translation in German. The thing is I can't find a good German expression if I don't get the exact idea.
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In this article the grinding was supplied by the car being turned turtle (on its roof).
See: http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=8263311&nav=0hBE
Note: The descriptions of the accident and the victims is most unpleasant.
See: http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=8263311&nav=0hBE
Note: The descriptions of the accident and the victims is most unpleasant.
Thanks for the article. I still don't know how to translate it but I get the idea. (The problem is that we probably don't have a word in German expressing all that.)
In that case you could call it a "rollover crash" (in the U.S.).