collision

collision, choc

Événement où deux choses en mouvement se heurtent, ou l’une heurte quelque chose d’immobile.

En anglais simple : An event in which two moving things hit each other, or one hits something still.

• Nobody was hurt in the collision.
• The driver swerved to avoid a collision.
• Two collisions blocked the road this morning.

Comment l'utiliser : collision between A and B (There was a collision between a bus and a car.); collision with something (The ship had a collision with a fishing boat.)

Synonymes : crash, impact

Expressions courantes : head-on collision, avoid a collision, collision course