The phrase "a car attack" is not commonly used in written English and may be confusing without context.
It could be used in discussions about incidents involving vehicles used as weapons or in aggressive driving situations.
Example: "The news reported a car attack at the crowded market, leaving several injured."
Alternatives: "vehicle assault" or "car-related attack".
By the afternoon, a car attack on peaceful demonstrators left 32-year-old Heather Heyer dead and dozens more injured.
In recent years Uighurs have been blamed a car attack on pedestrians in Beijing, a bombing and mass knifings in Chinese cities.
It notes that attacks are spreading beyond the borders of Xinjiang into the rest of China (beginning with a car attack in Beijing's Tiananmen Square last October that killed five people, including the car's occupants).
The deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017, which ended in a car attack on counter-protesters that left one woman dead and dozens injured, was organized in part on Facebook.
An al Qaeda video library discovered on the Web and obtained by The Washington Post from an experienced researcher showed in a series of high-quality training films shot in Afghanistan how to conduct a roadside assassination, raid a house, shoot a rocket-propelled grenade, blow up a car, attack a village, destroy a bridge and fire an SA-7 surface-to-air missile.
CHARLOTTESVILLE — The mother of a woman killed in a car attack during a white-supremacist rally here last year told a jury Monday that her daughter "was full of love, she was full of justice, she was full of fairness" — and that avowed neo-Nazi James A. Fields Jr. "tried to silence" her by ramming his speeding Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racism demonstrators.
In Zabul Province, a bomber in a car attacked a NATO convoy, and news reports said two American soldiers were killed.
At least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber driving a car attacked a commercial street in a southeastern Baghdad suburb on Monday, police and medical sources said.
On Friday, a suicide bomber in a car attacked a Nato convoy in the strategic Kapisa province, killing at least five civilians and wounding 15.
After a suicide bomber killed four people in the club, a second bomber in a car attacked emergency services responding to the incident.
A similar car attack by a Palestinian took place in the same area two weeks ago which left a woman and a baby dead.
