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Buninyong Truck Brake Failure: What Happens When 62.5 Tonnes Lose Their Brakes on a Steep Hill If you are reading this because a truck came barreling toward you or someone you love and could not stop — because the brakes were gone, because the grade was too steep, because no one put up a warning sign until it was too late — you already know the sound. It is the sound of a horn blaring not as a greeting but as a confession: I cannot slow down. What happened on that road is not a mystery to you. What is a mystery is what comes next: who is responsible, what evidence is already disappearing, and whether anyone will treat it like the catastrophe it nearly was. On Friday, May 6, 2022, a B-double heavy truck — an Australian configuration of a prime mover pulling two semi-trailers, with a combined gross mass up to 62.5 tonnes under Australian mass-limit regulations — descended the steep Midland Highway approach from Mt Buninyong toward the town’s central roundabout in Buninyong, Victoria, about 10 kilometers south of Ballarat. The driver sounded his horn to warn traffic. He could not brake. Vehicles were banked up at…