crash into

crash into (someone or something)

To collide with someone or something, often violently. Another driver ignored a red light and crashed into us in the middle of the intersection. He didn't see the dining room table and crashed right into it.
See also: crash
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crash into someone or something

to bump or ram into someone or something accidentally or roughly. The student crashed into the door when it opened suddenly. The car crashed into a bus.
See also: crash
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • crash into (someone or something)
  • slam into
  • slam into (someone or something)
  • ram into
  • ram into (someone or something)
  • run into (someone, something, or some place)
  • crash through
  • crash through (something)
  • knock into
  • knock into (someone or something)
References in periodicals archive
Instead of lamenting how readily the tips of their scanning tunneling microscopes (STMs) crash into and damage underlying samples, a group of researchers has figured out how to exploit those crashes to build precise, atom-scale structures, including fences made of straight lines of silver atoms.
Smashing the microscope: tiny crashes harnessed for nanoconstruction
Also, for every large commercial airliner that crashes into water (or on land), several hundred airplanes, with a seating capacity of less than 10, crash into oceans, lakes, and rivers.
Myths of Underwater Recovery Operations
In fact, small chunks of space rocks, called meteoroids, continually crash into Earth's atmosphere.
"I don't think most people really believed [comets could crash into planets] until they saw it happen," says Carolyn Shoemaker, a planetary astronomer at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Comet splashdown