As one of the steepest residential streets in the state, it attracted thrillseekers from as far as Campbelltown to recreate their own Hollywood scene of cars flying over hill crests and remaining airborne for a few seconds.

"Exhilarating!" says one middle-aged dad who survived the challenge in his Torana.

But the risky fun came to a tragic end in 1992 when a carload of young Campbelltown people cleared the crest only to flip and then slam into a telegraph pole a short distance down the hill.

Fifteen-year-old Lisa Possingham died instantly and the driver, an L plater, was seriously injured.

June Toussis with husband Emil and four-year-old son Michael had moved into the street only six months earlier: "I'll never forget that night ... it was after midnight and the whole street woke up to the sound of crying and screaming."

Toussis says she had reservations about living on a hill this steep, but fears were alleviated after doorknocking several neighbours.

She says the racing gradually developed into a problem after authorities closed off Marine Drive at City Beach to deter hoons and many moved to Brokers Road.

After the accident she and a neighbour, Diana Henderson, took to the streets with a petition and successfully lobbied to have Brokers Road partially closed.

Northbound cars now have to access the hill by turning right from Hudson Avenue.

"We still get a few people driving down the dip towing people in garbage bins," says Toussis.

"Not long ago they rolled two beer kegs down the hill which rolled and caught under my son's car," Toussis adds.

She says despite this, the street has a lot going for it and she would never live anywhere else.

"Most of the houses here have great views; we have a terrific primary school, and a warm village community," she says.

The family learned something very special about the street in the 1998 (and subsequent) floods.

"It is so steep that the water rushes straight past us, which means floods have never been a bother."

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