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Donlon remains angry about the treatment his wife received when she was detained for two hours in the 17th Precinct after a fender bender on the East Side on Dec. 16.—Graham Rayman, New York Daily News, 17 July 2025 After a fender bender introduced Dee and Charlie to a pair of seemingly too-good-to-be-true rich siblings, we were primed for the other shoe to drop.—Dennis Perkins, EW.com, 10 July 2025 These kinda things like this used to happen even in fender benders before seat belts became law.—Alexandra Schonfeld, People.com, 7 June 2025 For Level 2 systems, minor property damage incidents—including door dings, curb kisses and garden-variety fender benders—will now generally be excluded from reporting requirements.—Deni Ellis Béchard, Scientific American, 2 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for fender bender
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