Learn · Sentences Describing an Accident

I witnessed a truck collide with a bus.

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Sentence

Narrator

I witnessed a truck collide with a bus.

Study notes

How to use in different contexts

Giving Advice

Be careful; you might witness an accident like a truck colliding with a bus.

Describing Habits

I regularly drive this route and have witnessed several near misses, including a truck almost colliding with a bus.

Asking About Others

Did you witness the accident involving the truck and the bus?

Sharing Hypotheticals

If I hadn't been there, I wouldn't have witnessed the truck collide with the bus.

Rephrased versions

Formal

I observed a collision between a truck and a bus.

Casual

I saw a truck smash into a bus.

Simpler English

A truck hit a bus, and I saw it.

Phrases to learn

witnessed a collision

To have seen an accident or event happen.

collide with

To hit or crash into something.