For Linda and Wayne Condon, cars crashing into their Westbrook home, flying over their bushes or skidding across their driveway and lawn is nothing new.

It’s happened five times since they bought their home almost five years ago, including another incident this week.

The couple lives at 484 Cumberland St., at the corner of Pierce and Cumberland streets, which Linda Condon said has become known around town as “Crash Corner.” They’ve asked the city for help, and the city has responded by seeking help from the Maine Department of Transportation.

“I am really regretting buying that house,” Linda Condon said this week.

On Tuesday at around 12:30 p.m., a driver heading west on Cumberland Street toward Windham lost control of his car and crossed the street, according to police. After taking out a neighbor’s trash cans and a speed limit sign, police said the Hyundai, operated by Paul Rainey, 59, of Windham, drove across the Condons’ lawn, flattening a 10-foot lilac bush. He then narrowly missed two boulders the city put on the Condons’ lawn to protect them from cars coming the other direction. After that, the car sailed off an embankment, landed on Pierce Street and proceeded to an eventual stop on the lawn across Pierce from the Condons’.

Rainey told police he lost control of his car when he took his eyes off the road to reach for something on the passenger seat, according to Officer Kurt Bosse, who said police are not seeking any charges against Rainey. “The guy just had unbelievable luck today,” said Bosse.

Rainey’s luck hasn’t spread to the Condons, who have asked the city of Westbrook repeatedly to do something permanent to protect them. After placing the boulders, the city thought the problem was solved. However, the boulders haven’t prevented other incidents.

In most cases, vehicles have been traveling toward Westbrook and lost control around the corner. Two years ago, the city placed the boulders there to prevent vehicles from getting as far as the house. Unfortunately, they haven’t served as a final solution.

In August two years ago, Windham police were chasing a stolen car that missed the turn, hit the bank and flew up over a 10-foot-high lilac bush to come to a halt next to the back steps. The car somehow managed to squeak between the house and the garage, which are separated by about 10 feet. Condon said there were clumps of earth and grass on the roof of the garage. The driver and passenger were uninjured.

Just one month earlier, a drunk driver missed the turn and hit the bank of yard by the road. The car launched about 30 feet in the air over their driveway, flipped onto its roof and kept going. Condon said it didn’t stop until it “wrapped around” the house next to hers.

Last May an SUV hit one of the boulders and kept going until it slammed into the corner of the house. Condon said the impact shook the entire house and she didn’t sleep well for six months afterward. She still doesn’t let her grandchildren play in the yard.

City Administrator Jerre Bryant sai after the crash this summer that the city looked into various options and decided to ask the Maine Department of Transportation for help. He said the city has asked for a safety grant to pay for some, if not all, of a project to mitigate the problem. He said, if granted, work could include a guardrail around the Condon property, would definitely include a blinking yellow light above the intersection of Cumberland and Pierce streets, and could also include more signs on the sides of the road and on the road itself. Bryant said the city isn’t sure about the grant or the work to be done yet.

Condon said she feels the trouble is caused by a combination of cars coming from Windham traveling at speeds faster than the 30-mile-per-hour posted speed limit, the darkness of that area where there’s only one streetlight and a general increase in traffic in the last couple years.

Other contributing factors, according to Westbrook Police Chief Paul McCarthy, are drivers who are inattentive, fatigued or under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Condon said there have probably been about 15 incidents of cars running off the road in some way or another since they’ve lived there.

Condon is hoping the city and the state can fix the problem. She said her husband Wayne doesn’t want to leave, although she said she would. The only problem is, she’d feel bad selling the house to someone else.

“I would feel terrible if we sold that house and someone got killed there,” she said. “I’ll take my chances with me.”