Our street is on a slight decline towards one end. (setting the scene there)
A "geet big ugly thing" of a broken down van from next door had sat outside our house for the best part of a year.
One day - all of a sudden "Bang!!"
A car from the end of the street had rolled down the road, no one inside and only stopped cos it smashed into the back of the broken down van.
What a mangled mess but ...
Thank God it was there to stop it, thank God no kids were playing in the street and thank God the van got towed away for scrap