Crash

Crash may refer to:

Sudden events

• Collision, an impact between two moving objects
  • Traffic collision, also known as a car crash
  • Aviation accidents and incidents, airplane crash
• Crash (computing), a condition where a program ceases to respond
  • Head crash, in which a hard disk drive's read-write head physically collides with the disk
• Stock market crash, a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices
• Cardiac arrest, a medical condition in which the heart stops beating

Film

• Crash (1974 film), a Norwegian drama directed by Rolf Clemens
• Crash!, a 1977 suspense drama starring José Ferrer and Sue Lyon
• Crash (1978 film), a made-for-TV docudrama starring William Shatner and Adrienne Barbeau
• Crash (1996 film), a drama directed by David Cronenberg
• Crash (2004 film), a drama directed by Paul Haggis and winner of the 2005 Academy Award for Best Picture

Television

• Crash (1984 TV series), a Danish science fiction series
• Crash (2008 TV series), an American drama based on the 2004 film
• Crash (2009 TV series), an English-language Welsh medical drama series
• "The Crash" (Life on Mars), an erroneous title for the first episode of Life on Mars
• "Crashers" (Law & Order), a 2010 episode of the NBC long-running legal drama, Law & Order

Books and magazines

• Crash (J. G. Ballard novel) by J. G. Ballard, the basis of the 1996 film
• Crash (Spinelli novel), by Jerry Spinelli
• Crash (magazine)

Music

Performers

• Crash (South Korean band)
• Crash (UK band)
• The Crash (band), a Finnish pop rock band
• Billy "Crash" Craddock, country music singer
• Darby Crash, punk rock musician
• Crash (drummer), member of the Swedish hard rock band H.E.A.T

Albums

• Crash (Billy "Crash" Craddock album)
• Crash (Dave Matthews Band album)
• Crash (Human League album)
• Crash (Decyfer Down)

Songs

• "Crash" (Feeder song)
• "Crash" (Gwen Stefani song)
• "Crash" (The Primitives song)
• "Crash" (Royseven song)
• "Crash" (Cavo song)
• "Crash!", a song by Propellerheads
• "Crash", a song by Anthrax from We've Come for You All
• "Crash", a song by Methods of Mayhem from Methods of Mayhem (album)
• "Crash", a song by Mephisto Odyssey, featuring Static-X
• "Crash", a song by Aerosmith from Nine Lives (Aerosmith album)
• "Crash", a song by Sum 41 from the album Screaming Bloody Murder

Instruments

• Crash cymbal

Gaming

• Crash Bandicoot (video game)
• crash 2 ps1
• crash 3 ps1 (racing game)
• Crash (card game)
• CRASH convention, a concept in the game of contract bridge
• Crash Bandicoot (disambiguation), various meanings relating to a video game
• Crash, a character in the video game Crash 'n the Boys: Street Challenge
• Hot Wheels: Crash!, a video game released in 2000 for Microsoft Windows
• Crash, a character in the video game Quake 3
• Burnout Crash!, a video game released in 2011 for PlayStation Network (PlayStation 3) and Xbox Live Arcade (Xbox 360), with the Xbox 360 version being Kinect-enhanced

People with the given name Crash

• Crash (graffiti artist) or John Matos (born 1961), American graffiti artist
• Crash Holly or Mike Lockwood (1971–2003), American professional wrestler
• "Crash", a nickname of American Olympic pole vaulter Toby Stevenson
• Gerald "Crash" Wallace, a forward for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers.

Other uses

• Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, a unit of the Los Angeles Police Department
• A group of rhinoceroses
• The act of gate-crashing, entering an event without invitation
  • Wedding crashing, attending a wedding without an invitation
• The negative effect of a drug; the comedown (drugs)
• Crash, a plain linen fabric used for towels.
• Iowa City Crash, a Rugby League team from Iowa City, IA, USA

See also

• "Crashed" (Daughtry song)
• "Crashing" (Unloco song), a song by Unloco