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{{trope}}
{{quote|''If I am escaping in a large truck and the hero is pursuing me in a small Italian sports car, I will not wait for the hero to pull up along side of me and try to force him off the road as he attempts to climb aboard. Instead I will slam on the brakes when he's directly behind me. (A rudimentary knowledge of physics can prove quite useful.)''
When you have a scene in the middle of a [[Chase Scene|heated chase]] where one character is trying to escape another, and their pursuer's car is just feet behind them, there's a tried-and-true tactic that sits near the top of the list of chase-breaking manuevers: the party (or parties) being pursued suddenly slams on the brakes, causing the pursuer to run into him. This is called
A variation on this exists where the pursued driver doesn't let the other car slam into them; he just brakes and lets the other vehicle speed by. The pursued then does a full 180 and heads in the other direction, hopefully having put some space between them and the pursuer.
[[Do Not Attempt|Don't try this]] if your vehicle is [[Every Car Is a Pinto|an exploding Pinto]].
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* In ''[[Case Closed]]'', a variant is used to disable a car full of bad guys holding a man hostage: they box him in, and then the car in the front slams on the breaks, causing the bad guys inside to lose their grip on the hostage and allowing the police to move in and arrest them all without causing too much harm on said hostage.
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* ''[[Tintin]]'':
** Tintin is on a motorcycle and chasing a carful of baddies. The baddies slam on the brakes, Tintin gets knocked off his bike, baddies zoom off.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The "swoop and squat" is a common car accident scam that involves one or more cars baiting the victim into crashing into them this way. The additional cars may act as the swoop vehicles that "force" the squatter to slam the brakes, or else box in the victim so they have no means of avoiding the squat vehicle when it brakes.
** A variant includes "cutting the other driver off" – pulling directly in front of them from the adjacent lane with too little distance for them to panic-stop, then abruptly decelerating or locking the brakes on all wheels. This does occur in [[Insurance Fraud]] schemes as a way to stage a collision, usually as a prelude to a spurious injury claim.
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