The charge for recovering a broken-down car rocketed from 105 to 150 - up 43 per cent.

She was ticketed for moving her broken-down car off the road and out of the path of school buses and other traffic.

His family was not able to attend because their broken-down car had failed yet again.

That's evident from the humble opening where the four main characters are stranded with their broken-down car.

For the moment, however, he simply decides to stay on the farm and to sleep in the broken-down car.