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If people drove like that in Australia there would be constant prangs.
2009, Bridget Griffen-Foley, Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio, page 90:
The drive host, Mark Day, recalls the sinking feeling as he covered an accident on the Tullamarine expressway and wondered what commuters in Sydney would think about hearing all the details of the prang.
“Didn′t bump nobody,” I sneer. “That′s because you were careful,” says the wife. “Your forecast doesn′t say you will prang. It merely says ‘exercise care today,’ which you did.”
(transitive, chiefly Australia and New Zealand,UK,informal) To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
2004, John Pym, editor, Time Out Film Guide, page 70:
Soon after rescuing some silly children from the local caves, the alien prangs his vessel and dies.
2005, Thomas Marshall, Our Summer in Australia And New Zealand, page 93:
On Friday, I picked up our camper van, upgraded to a four sleeper so Elysee and I could each find a neutral corner, which I managed to “prang,” navigating the parking lot, within one hour of signing away my house as security.
1995, Joshua Eliot, Thailand and Burma Handbook 1996, page 216:
The prang is surrounded by walls, which are in turn surrounded by smaller prangs and chedis, some of which are rather precariously supported.
2001, Paul Gray, Lucy Ridout, The Rough Guide to Bangkok, page 119:
The second platform surrounds the base of the prang proper, whose closed entranceways are guarded by four statues of the Hindu god Indra on his three-headed elephant Erawan.
