This has to be o­ne of the most destructive crashes we've ever seen. Tenitsu's P901iS has been absolutely obliterated.

This week, Massu puts his W-ZERO3 down in the wrong place.

If you're going to put something o­n your bike, make sure it's secure.

This week's Crash involves a phone getting dunked in some post-snow puddles.

Four days and two soggy phones later, Taku is having some problems.

Not every edition of "The Crash" ends in tears. This week, Mr. Stray Cat Food scores himself a free laptop.

Should you give your mobile phone to your kindergarten-aged children and expect it back in o­ne piece?

It's heartbreaking when a treasured item is absolutely destroyed. But when o­nly the beautiful LCD is cracked? It's atrocious.

A back pocket isn't a good place for a mobile phone, regardless of how much you actually weigh.

"I realized that my head was heavy enough to break the LCD of my mobile phone."

Phone, floor, 3 year old daughter. You already know what this edition of "The Crash" is about.

Camera lens mysteriously disappeared?

Nikkun of Tokyo is all about breaking components in the same day he buys them...

Siemens M55 can't even take a tumble. To a marble floor.

So here's what happens when you sit o­n your PDA.

Hey, wait a minute, I thought these things were supposed to be close to invincible! Didn't ArsTechnica do some sort of abuse test?

Nevertheless, this week's Crash is o­ne of most talked-about gadgets of late: the iPod nano

Dropping your phone is o­ne thing, but slipping o­n it when you go to pick it up? Sounds like a Pee Wee movie.

Knick-knack patty-whack, give a dog a...phone?

Hold o­n to your books when running, or better yet, your PDA.

Japanese trains wait for no man.

Anything can happen when you're wasted.

They build those iPod minis pretty tough ...

After his daughter is the victim of a vicious Hello Kitty attack, he dropped his camera at the theme park. It can happen to all of us.

Three items lost in a tragic moving accident. Such a shame.

When will people learn not to keep their expensive electronic gadgets in their shirt pockets?

Electronic dictionaries are not cheap, unfortunately for many Japanese students who require them.

The CRASH! is back after much delay.This week, "inter" of Kagoshima drops his au W21T in the road.

"Be careful when climbing stairs."

Lesson learned: DO NOT turn o­n your heater while your cell phone is still sitting o­n it.

It was only a matter of time. Sony fans might want to look away...

When are people going to learn to not put their phones in their shirt pockets?

Once again, we have a protective case failing to perform its o­nly duty -- protect!

Protective cases don't always do their jobs, as this week's contributor found out while skiing with his digital camera.

Another bed-related accident this week, as Jun from Kanagawa apparently crunched his phone as he woke up in the morning. What a way to start the day.

Phones aren't made to have beds dropped o­n them.

Lesson learned: don't leave your phone in your pants pocket while changing.

Easier than that, actually: don't step o­n your pants while changing.

Traffic accidents often lead to broken lives, bones, windshields...and even gadgets.

Another iPod gets a broken screen. Then why does it cost 28,100 yen to repair it?

The CRASH! is back in full force after a short vacation, and this edition hits almost too close to home: a Zaurus SL-C860 fell out of the contributor's pocket after he stood up from the Porcelain God.

Another o­ne bites the dust. Bitten by a dog, that is.

This is what can happen if you leave things on the floor and don't turn on the light before you enter the room...

In a word, this guy obliterated his MiniDisc player.

Here's a DDI Pocket phone being stepped o­n. This should give the contributor a good excuse to upgrade from DDI Pocket's PHS service. It's just so...1992.

This bicyclist got hit by a car, and his phone got caught between him and the ground. Ouch.

iPod + Car = 0 songs in your pocket ...

Be nice to your dogs...

iHP-140: 0
Being wasted: 1

Want to know what happens to a phone when it gets runover by no less than three cars?

It still works.

Gripping story inside.

These stories about how products get broken are often captivating. It's refreshing to hear about actual events sometimes, instead of just reporting o­n new technology.
More usefully, though, some of these situations will alert us of the danger posed to gadgets in certain situations. By reading "THE CRASH!", you could potentially be saving some of your gadgets!

This week we hear from Mr. Gatsuo in Tokyo, whose 2 year old daughter drops his phone o­n the asphalt. Ouch.

It's a shame to see such a beautiful piece of equipment be ruined. Perhaps even worse is how the guy is just going to pitch it! Seriously, he could at least donate the working parts to science or something. I'm sure the LCD is worth a couple bucks to someone.

As far as I can tell, Canon's WordTank line is the most popular Japanese/English dictionaries used by people of my generation.

This week's THE CRASH features some poor bastard who dropped his brand spankin' new PowerBook G4 within 12 hours of purchasing it. Sucks.

THE CRASH! is a feature offered o­n Keitai Watch o­n a weekly basis, where users who have somehow destroyed their phones send in pictures along with short descriptions of how it happened. I'll also be taking some literary license with this, so let me know if you like my writing style.
I just thought I'd give it a shot; tell me what you think.

This week Sakaguchi from Osaka submits images of his broken DoCoMo N900iS.