| NOUN | a head-on collision | head-on collisions |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- and the warhead destroyed the satellite in a head-on collision at an extremely high relative velocity.
- "Ken No Sen" (Attacking) is the most obvious method of forestalling an enemy because a head-on collision forces both parties to a standstill.
- The dispatchers divert the runaway onto a dead-end branch line after determining it is only five minutes away from a head-on collision with a passenger train.
- In March 2019, the two members of Liverpool indie pop duo Her's died alongside their tour manager after a head-on collision on I-10 near Salome, Arizona.
- It is the co-existence of the long-known large ring-like feature in the gas of Messier 31, together with this newly discovered inner ring-like structure, offset from the barycenter, that suggested a nearly head-on collision with the satellite M32, a milder version of the Cartwheel encounter.
- 1994: To avoid a head-on collision with a highway sanding truck, a tour bus carrying 21 passengers swerved into a snowbank. One passenger sustained a broken leg, and another an injured shoulder.
- His technique was used to accumulate intense beams of antiprotons for head-on collision with counter-rotating proton beams at 540 GeV centre-of-mass energy or 270 GeV per beam in the Super Proton Synchrotron at CERN.
- In 1992 Big Ben survived two bouts with colic and an accident in which his horse trailer overturned on a highway after a head-on collision with a car.
- The Arawa Onsen - Higashi-Furuichi section closed in 1969, and the section to Eijeihi closed in 2002 after a fatal head-on collision resulted in services being suspended and subsequently never resumed.
- A set of events similar to those that doomed "Star Dust" also caused the crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in 1972 (depicted in the film "Alive"), although there were survivors from that crash because it involved a glancing blow to a mountainside rather than a head-on collision.
- On the DVD special "Clarkson: Heaven and Hell", Jeremy Clarkson set up a jousting contest between a Scorpio – which he described as "a wide mouthed frog" – and a Triumph TR7, eventually destroying both cars via head-on collision.
- For example, they show that a head-on collision between two monopoles results in 90-degree scattering, with the direction of scattering depending on the relative phases of the two monopoles.
- Sale Moor's line had only a single track which, in 1925, resulted in a head-on collision between two tramcars, injuring eight passengers.
- Although a head-on collision involving a car and a bus occurred in 1980, the concept became permanent, but with the HOV lanes separated from the rest of traffic with Jersey barriers.
- The record spawned two popular singles; "My Friends Over You" and "Head on Collision".
- On November 12, 1991, Pazienza was a passenger in a car that was involved in a head-on collision in Warwick, Rhode Island, at an estimated speed of [...] , as a result of which he suffered a dislocated vertebra and two fractured vertebrae in his neck.
- Fox was killed in a head-on collision on December 18, 2000 on the Desert Road some [...] south of Auckland, New Zealand.
- Passive safety features include: crumple zones in 1957 (vehicle body structure absorbs the force of impact); collapsible steering column (prevents the steering column from protruding into the cabin during accidents), strengthened occupant cell enhanced occupant protection during severe impacts (rollovers); pre-accident seatbelt tensioning (tightens seatbelts prior to impact), and sandwich platforms (allows the engine to slide under the occupants in a head-on collision).
- The first known collision between two airbag-equipped automobiles took place on 12 March 1990 in Virginia, USA.
- In 1899, two railroad workers were killed in a collision between two trains.
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