The controversial subject matter prompted "The Daily Mail" and "The Evening Standard" to orchestrate an aggressive campaign to ban "Crash" in the United Kingdom. In response to this outcry, the British Board of Film Classification (BBFC) inquired with a Queen's Counsel and a psychologist, none of whom found any justification to ban it, and 11 disabled people, who saw no offense with its portrayal of the physically challenged. Seeing no evidence for a ban, "Crash" was passed by the BBFC uncut with an 18 rating in March 1997.