My brakes went out while driving down a hill.

[Drunken Irishman]

It was pretty scary.

The car brakes had been fine all day, then I start going down a hill, I apply them, notice I'm not slowing down, even though I'm pushing pretty hard, then the brake light lit up.

Thankfully I pushed hard enough to get the car to stop and there wasn't anyone in front of me, or it could have been ugly.

But I still needed to drive home, back up the hill.

[NJmaverick]

1. Check to make sure you have enough brake fluid

[Xipe Totec]

2. Boston: Fire truck crash kills firefighter, injures 6

Jan 9, 2009:



One firefighter was killed and another was seriously injured when a Boston Fire Department ladder truck hurtled down a hill and crashed into a building Friday on Huntington Avenue in the city's Mission Hill neighborhood, city and fire officials said. Three children were taken to the hospital with minor injuries when the truck hit the room where they were participating in an after-school program.

Fire Lieutenant Kevin M. Kelley, 52, of Quincy, a 30-year veteran of the force, was killed in the crash, said Steve MacDonald, a fire department spokesman.

The truck was carrying Kelley and three other firefighters back from a routine medical call when it went down Parker Hill Road, rumbled through the intersection with Huntington Avenue, smashed into two parked cars, and struck the building, said MacDonald. Kelley was riding in the front passenger seat when the truck rammed the building at 835 Huntington Ave. at around 2:32 p.m.

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It has since been determined that the truck's brakes failed.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/01/fire_engine_cra.html?p1=Well_MostPop_Emailed3

[Drunken Irishman]

3. That's horrible.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Get those brakes fixed

Like, NOW!

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