Does “30,000 Pounds of Bananas” by Harry Chapin count?
Does the “blew his mind out in a car” count? If so, whatever Beatles song that was. Day in the Life maybe?
Sure (at least to me as non-OP)! Even though it’s a silly song, the lines “And he said ‘God, make it a dream’ / as he rode his last ride down” still give me chills.
almost but not quite… Wilco’s “Passenger Side”:
Hey, wake up
Your eyes weren’t open wide
For the last couple of miles
You’ve been swerving from side to side
“Passage” by Vienna Teng.
Life is just a joy ride
Drink a lotta beer and climb inside
lay your foot down on the gas
leave it there until you crash!
-Built to Spill
The same song also contains one of my favorite verses of all time:
This part of the song is called the second verse
It sounds just like the first verse but with different words
It only has three chords and they are A D G
They are A…D…and G
The Doors, Peace Frog: “Indians scattered on dawn’s highway bleeding; ghosts crowd the young child’s fragile eggshell mind.”
The Nails, 88 Lines about 44 Women: “Dina drove her Chevrolet into the San Francisco Bay”
U2: Daddy’s Gonna Pay For Your Crashed Car
U2: Stay (Faraway, So Close!):
Dressed up like a car crash
Your wheels are turnin’, but you’re upside down
“Tell Laura I Love Her,” by Ray Peterson. The song has been covered a number of times by a number of people, but Peterson did it first, in 1960. He hit the Top Ten with it that year.
It’s a typical 50s/60s teen car crash song: Tommy (the hero) wants to ask Laura to marry him, but he has no money for a ring. But there’s a stock car race coming up, and the prize money will buy Laura a fine ring. Tommy enters the race, but…
No-one knows what happened that day,
How his car overturned in flames,
But as they pulled him from the twisted wreck,
With his dying breath they heard him say,
“Tell Laura I love her…”
It’s a three-tissue song, according to a young lady I once knew.
A couple of parody car crash songs:
“I Want My Baby Back” by Jimmy Cross
“Pizza Man” by Alice Playten
Thanks for all the help, I’m now in a rush to try and find all these songs and listen to them to make them into a coherent mix tape…
oddly enough for a road trip…
Thanks for all the help! More suggestions are always welcome! 
That’s a great one- would anyone believe a song about necrophilia could hit the pop charts- in 1965?
*It’s been many months now since that fateful night
and you know something? I’ve tried.
Believe me, I have tried
but I just can’t make it without my baby.
So, I’ve decided I’m going to have her back
one way or another.
Oh, baby, I dig you so much.
Hot dang! Pay dirt!
(sounds of coffin being dug up, our hero climbs inside)
I’ve got my baby back
Now, I’ve got my baby back
I love her, oh, so much
Can’t live without her touch
I’ve got my baby back *
Tom Cochrane - Big League
And a true story to boot.
ETA: Highway to Hell - AC/DC - OK, implied but most definitely about dying in a car crash.
Great song! I got to see it live here in Denver a few years ago.
Also, The Artist in the Ambulance by Thrice.
Madness, Driving In My Car : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYZNSyP9v9M
Last week it went round the clock,
I also had a little knock
I dented somebody’s fender,
he learnt not to park on a bender,
ha ha ha
Paul Evans - Hello, This Is Joannie
Matthew Good Band - Indestructible
David Bowie, “Always Crashing In The Same Car”
John Hiatt, “The Wreck Of The Barbie Ferrari”
Would Spike Jones’ rendition of Dance of the Hours count as a song?
“He’s gonna hit that fence! Pleeeease don’t hit that fence…BANG…He hit it!”