The car crash song emerged as a popular pop and rock music teenage tragedy song during the 1950s and 1960s at a time when the number of people being killed in vehicle collisions was rising rapidly in many countries.
In the United Kingdom, the number of fatalities on UK roads rose to a peace-time peak of 7,985 in 1966 before then falling to a new low of 2,222 in 2009.
[1] The theme also covers motorcycle crashes and appears in country and other music styles.
[2] From The Sufferer & the Witness From The Artist in the Ambulance we'll be twisting here for hours til the light will give us day / and we're spread across the open road" "Have another drink and drive yourself home" "I hope there's ice on all the roads" "And you can think of me when you forget your seatbelt" "Then again when your head goes through the windshield" From Of Malice and the Magnum Heart