The phrase "horrendous accident" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a very serious and destructive accident, or an event that had devastating consequences. Example sentence: The train derailed, resulting in a horrendous accident that killed several people.
Unfortunately, due to a horrendous accident, Alex hasn't made it home.
"He was really smart but just couldn't get it together, and then he had this horrendous accident.
Then Dan's car – from what I saw on the videos later – came over my back wheel and over the top of me, just a horrendous accident".
As their car weaves in and out of traffic on a congested highway, the daylight fades, and you have the intimations of a horrendous accident just ahead.
November 24 We drive to Dresden - two and a half hours (extended to four by a characteristically horrendous accident) to film a Caspar David Friedrich painting.
The stage might have been set for a heartwarming tale of human resilience, of a man who had faced down death to return victorious to the scene of a horrendous accident a year later.
The speeds - and occasional horrendous accidents - have given Indycar racing a somewhat undeserved reputation as an insanely dangerous sport.
Undaunted by horrendous accidents and massive cost overruns, officials are planning further expansion of the country's high-speed rail network.
"We want to see some architecture in the contract to change a culture that has created constant exposure of our members to horrendous accidents".
But when we actually think about what's going on above our heads every day, it's a miracle that there are not more horrendous accidents.
We saw a string of horrendous accidents - including the 1986 Challenger explosion.
