In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan causes the death of Myrtle Wilson in this kind of event.
After Cody is killed in an event of this type, a white-haired "stickman" holds Cody in his arms and tells him God loves him at the end of George Saunders's story "The End of FIRPO in the World." The narrator of a 1973 novel thinks that all mankind will perish in one of these events and has an affair with Helen Remington, a fellow survivor of one. In that novel titled for these events, Robert Vaughan orchestrates one that will kill him and Elizabeth Taylor because these events arouse him sexually. Just after discovering Humbert Humbert's diary entries about Lolita, Charlotte Haze is killed in one of these events. In The Great Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan causes the death of Myrtle Wilson in this kind of event. For 10 points, name these accidents that are the focus of J. G. Ballard's novel Crash.
After Cody is killed in an event of this type, a white-haired "stickman" holds Cody in his arms and tells him God loves him at the end of George Saunders's story "
car accidents [accept any answer mentioning accidents or crashes and the idea of cars or autos or automobiles; prompt on less-specific answers mentioning "accidents" or "crashes"; do not accept or prompt on answers mentioning accidents of other types of vehicles, such as "motorcycle accidents"]