TITO F. HERMOSO
We’ve heard it all before and maybe even some of us have been temped to use the worn excuse. Whenever a driver rear-ends a car, T-bones a tricycle or sideswipes a pedestrian we will find that almost all accident investigation reports cite the “loss of brakes” claim. The papers frequently carry stories of truck and bus accidents, compounded with dozens of fatalities, where the drivers blame brake failure as having caused the incident. But how does one “lose brakes”?