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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.)''
|''[http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/dungeon_a.html Evil Overlord List, Cellblock A]'', #134}}
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 '''"Chase-Breaking Braking".''' Ideally this is done so that the pursuer has little to no time to change their course; the purpose of the resulting crash is to give whoever's being pursued time to escape, as being rear-ended isn't nearly as hazardous to their momentum as ramming into the back of the car is to the pursuer.
A variation on this exists where the pursued driver doesn't let the other car slam
[[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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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Terminator]] 2''. While driving the SWAT van, the T-800 slams on the brakes to make the pursuing helicopter (piloted by the T-1000) crash into the van.
* ''[[Speed]]'' uses a variation: in order to jump from the car he's driving (which he's in via [[Flashed Badge Hijack]]) into the bus, [[Keanu Reeves]] opens the door, slams on the brakes, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBgl7ps7UQA#t=1m38s lets the bus take the door off.]
* ''[[Hot Shots]]!'' does the "brake and let the pursuers pass" variant... with fighter jets.
== Tabletop Games ==
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== Web Original ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** In episode 31, Aerrow is chased by Hoerk at one point. He brakes, clipping Hoerk's skimmer with his own and sending him spinning out of control.
** In episode 49, when Finn is on Marge's ship and they're being attacked by Talons, Marge pulls on the brake once the Talons are behind them, causing their skimmers to collide with the much larger airship.
== [[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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