Alas, she does not survive! The car accident was murder attempt #1 after he realized she couldn't play piano anymore, but Angela, like Rasputin, survives the car crash, and his attempt to chuck her into the burning engine afterwards, and his further attempts to bash her to death with a rock, and all his later tries at 'accidental' morphine overdose, only to eventually succumb to the most Gothic of all fates, 'fell screaming off a cliff while fleeing the pursuit of an evil husband.'