Old soldiers in the car that collided with the lady's (7)
I believe the answer is:
archers
'old soldiers' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both people as well as being plural nouns.
Perhaps you can see a link between them that I can't see?
'car that collided with the lady's' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'car' is 'arc' which is located in the answer.
'lady's' could be 'hers' (her refers to a woman) and 'hers' is present in the answer.
This accounts for all the letters.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).
'in the' acts as a link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for archers that I've seen before include "Her cars, oddly, use bows and arrows" , "Their sport is the bow and arrow" , "Bowmen on BBC radio?" , "Agincourt soldiers?" , "Old combatants" .)