What is "pileups"

Usage examples of "pileups".

Then there would be many long minutes of commercials, mostly for products to keep one's bowels sleek, followed by filmed reports on regional murders, house fires, light airplane crashes, multiple car pileups on the Boulder Highway and other bits of local carnage, always with film of mangled vehicles, charred houses, bodies under blankets and a group of children standing on the fringes, waving happily at the cameras and saying hi to their moms.

The only things that surpassed them for diversion value were multiple-car pileups with bodies strewn about the highway.

But the scene below was reminiscent of the motorway pileups that had still blighted Britain during her childhood in the 1990s.

There was still no official estimate of how many lives had been saved from fires, or stranding in Underground tunnels, or road pileups, or the lethal mundanity of being trapped in stuck elevators.

The highway itself is colorless and the sides of it look chewed on, and there's litter, and the median strip is dead grass with a whole lot of different tiretracks and skidmarks striping the sod for dozens of miles, as if from the mother of all multivehicle pileups sometime in I-26's past.

As they always did in pileups, things happened very fast and seemed to happen very slowly.