We recently developed a kinetic model of the probability that a simulation with a given time step ∆t will crash during a given total simulation time. In this model, crashes are caused when a position update by the time integrator positions a fast-moving particle within the repulsive core of another particle. Large forces then result in numerical instabilities. The model describes crashes as Poisson-distributed events with exponential waiting times. For a system of for point particles, we showed that the crash rate depends on the integration time step as: