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Thank you for this. The plane didn’t “crash” or fall out of the sky. It rejected takeoff and left the runway.

So, a car driving into a ditch, didn't crash, it just rejected the road? A crash is a crash.

A "crash" implies a collision with something. Per your example, a car can leave the road but when it collides with drainage ditch it becomes a crash

In this case there was NO COLLSION with another object and therefore no crash