What is "train wrecks"

Usage examples of "train wrecks".

The pictures were of dead bodies, train wrecks, aircraft crashes, murdered children and graves.

We moved through the room and old men walked into walls, pit bosses turned silent, waitresses stopped in their tracks, chips were dropped on the floor and women stared with the sort of open-mouthed curiosity usually reserved for train wrecks.

Justine was certain that no matter what, even if he had rushed here through fires and floods and train wrecks, he would not forget to stop at Lexington Market first for a sack of horehound drops and he would not fail to cup her head in that considering way of his when he had arrived.

Maybe somewhere up above the clouds there was an old man with a beard making life-and-death decisions in the very same way, tossing coins, shrugging, and passing out train wrecks and heart attacks.

Edom and Jacob arrived, dinner was served, and while the food was wonderful, the conversation was better-even though the twins occasionally shared their vast knowledge of train wrecks and deadly volcanic eruptions.

One halfway expected airplane crashes, train wrecks, violent crimes--the routine disasters and sorrows from which the media made its living--but something like this was the occurrence of a lifetime.

One halfway expected airplane crashes, train wrecks, violent crimes—.

I'm not having premonitions about train wrecks in Japan, airplane crashes in South America, tidal waves in Tahiti.