Collide with car, shattering belief in Japan (5,4)

'collide with' is the definition.
(I've seen this in another clue)

'car shattering belief in japan' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
an anagram of 'car' is 'cra' which is located in the answer.
'belief' could be 'shinto' (Shinto is an example) and 'shinto' is located in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

Can you help me to learn more?