Has your car ever decided to just...give up mid-trip?

So my best friend and I are driving home in her Astro-Van, when we're like...a hundred feet away from her house, the van just decides to die right in the middle of the road. Before it just plain stopped it made this noise that sounded like a box of gles being dropped on the ground followed by a mild burning scent inside of the car and under the hood. The engine was a tiny bit warmer than it ought to have been for a drive down town and back, and we were a bit low on oil and in the red on gas. when we were that low on gas in the past, we would just chug our way to the station and fill her up. we were puzzled further when the van simply would not start up again. any advice?