overturned cars
Upside-down automobiles nearby
Overturned cars are vehicles that have flipped onto their sides or roofs, typically from accidents, collisions, or loss of control.
The image appears in news reports of crashes and natural disasters, and serves as a visual shorthand for chaos and destruction: Overturned cars lined the streets after the tornado.
Rioters may overturn cars as acts of protest or vandalism.
- flippedReversed position suddenly
- upside downReversed in vertical orientation
- wreckageDestroyed remains of something
- crashSudden violent impact
- pile upAccumulate in quantity
collision · accident · debris · shattered · broken glass · glass · twisted · twisted metal · metal · wheels · roadside · emergency · sirens · first responders · rescue · rollover · upside-down · car wreck
- train accidentstrain accidents, train wrecks, derailments, collisions, crashes