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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.
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