English speakers? Or American English speakers? Here in NZ car accident is much more natural to say than car crash. Although even that has subtleties. "I got

English speakers? Or American English speakers? Here in NZ car accident is much more natural to say than car crash. Although even that has subtleties. "I got in to a car accident" would be the normal turn of phrase, but if remove the "car" and the "I" then crash becomes more likely: "There was a crash on State Highway 1".