Sentence examples for brakes failed from inspiring English sources

A double-decker motorcoach carrying 46 passengers and a driver rolled over onto its left side on a downhill path because the coach's brakes failed.

Forty-seven people were killed in a matter of minutes, the town leveled when a train's brakes failed.

Makharadze says his brakes failed.

For some reason, the air brakes failed.

"My brakes failed," he said, shaken and apologetic.

The police identified the driver as Preston Carter, who told KCAL-TV that his brakes failed.

I have had brakes fail on an old mini.

When the gang members appear, pedaling furiously, and try to stop, their brakes fail.

When the brakes fail, they leap yet again into a third skyscraper.

Remember that, next time someone is killed because a tractor's brakes fail.

Or have his brakes fail, kill his suspension, watch his battery die against the realities of a shot alternator.