Collision after last of vehicles suddenly appeared (6)
I believe the answer is:
sprang
'suddenly appeared' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both to do with perception as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'collision after last of vehicles' is the wordplay.
'collision' becomes 'prang' (I've seen this before).
'after' says to put letters next to each other.
'last of' suggests the final letters.
The last letter of 'vehicles' is 's'.
'prang' after 's' is 'SPRANG'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for sprang that I've seen before include "got out of jail" , "Leapt foward" , "freed prisoner" , "Bounded forward" , "Suddenly leapt (up)" .)