verunglücken

to have a serious accident — usually implying grave injury and/or danger to life, often even death

• Er wäre nicht verunglückt, wenn er an jenem Tage zu Hause geblieben wäre.

  If he had stayed at home that day, he would not have met with disaster.

  Tatoeba · Pfirsichbaeumchen · CC BY 2.0 FR

to be a fiasco