Check your brakes

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[El Kabong]

Wow! How awful. Some sound advice in there. Wear your shoulder harnesses/belts even for a short ride, check your brakes, have a working emergency brake are all good.

With all the talk about old brakes & having your brakes checked, it seems like they are ignoring the fact that he was riding the brakes the whole time. That'll heat them up & boil the brake fluid into vapor to so that you cannot use your hydraulic brakes no matter how good they are. It's why running downhill in low enough gears to not need to ride the brakes is so important. It sounds like they should have dealt with the sticking throttle instead of continuing to film. But, hindsight is easy, & I'm sure the excitement of the day caused the owner to do things differently than he normally would have done.

 

[ntsqd]

Every time I see something like this I am amazed that the most obvious and immediate solution to the problem is either ignored or not thought of.

Turn the ignition key off!

Years ago when Toyota was having a run-away engines problem there was a Camry full of people, driven by an off duty CHP officer, killed when he used up the brakes trying to slow the car down. The news articles at the time estimated that they wer going over 100 mph when they hit some concrete obstruction. It was heart-breaking then that the simple solution should have been obvious to a trained driver, but it didn't. Time hasn't made it any better and people haven't learned.

 

[MastroBronco]

Every time I see something like this I am amazed that the most obvious and immediate solution to the problem is either ignored or not thought of.

Turn the ignition key off!

Years ago when Toyota was having a run-away engines problem there was a Camry full of people, driven by an off duty CHP officer, killed when he used up the brakes trying to slow the car down. The news articles at the time estimated that they wer going over 100 mph when they hit some concrete obstruction. It was heart-breaking then that the simple solution should have been obvious to a trained driver, but it didn't. Time hasn't made it any better and people haven't learned.

Exactly what I thought when I saw the video. Why didn't he jut turn it off to stop accelerating or bump it in reverse and floor it.

 

[BadSquatch]

It's amazing how the mind can shut down in situations like that. You could see the panic on the drivers face pretty clearly. Panic will get you killed 9 times out of 10 in deadly situations.