The phrase "a clash started" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the beginning of a conflict or confrontation between parties.
Example: "As tensions rose, a clash started between the two rival groups, leading to chaos in the streets."
Alternatives: "a conflict erupted" or "a confrontation began."
He said witnesses told police the clash started after a Muslim Rohingya confronted a Buddhist fisherman about sectarian violence in their homeland.
A security official said one clash started when protesters began throwing rocks at government forces at a checkpoint near a main highway.
Clash started at Forbes magazine as a reporter in 1993 and was promoted to staff writer in 1996.
Though he shared substance addictions with Martin and Janis Joplin and sexual compulsions with Cooke, Joplin and Sylvester, and though he had enough money once the Clash started raking it in, he seems to have achieved a fair portion of the ordinary blokedom toward which his inchoate but sincere and inquisitive radicalism impelled him.
According to the police and witness accounts, the clash started when Mr. Arzu drove his red Nissan Quest into a parked car on Hewitt Place about 11 40 p.m. Officer Lora heard the crash and ran from his home, dressed in a hooded sweatshirt and jeans and armed with his 9-millimeter Glock handgun.
The clash started at the Twin Peaks restaurant in Waco, where gangs had gathered to discuss bikers' rights.
The clash started after the Pakistanis fired shots or flares at two American helicopters that Pakistan says had crossed its border.
The Clash started out in the late 1970's imitating the Ramones; on Wednesday Mr. Strummer sang the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" and the early Clash's response, "London's Burning".
The clash started when Japan announced earlier this month that it had bought the islands from private owners, sparking protests in China, where Japanese firms have closed their offices and diplomatic events have been cancelled.
Paul Collingwood's mind games over the England-Scotland clash started before Eoin Morgan's team were thrashed by New Zealand, with the three-time Ashes winner suggesting that England coach Peter Moores could lose his job if results did not improve.
