On Sat, July 18th my friends and I picked up our rental car from Alamo San Jose in Costa Rica. ONE hour into our trip while driving my brakes went completely out the road started to go downhill and we were approaching a curve. The car started to pick up speed and I pulled the emergency brake and NOTHING happened.

I tried to keep the car steady but was forced onto the other side of the road. We hit a truck that was coming the opposite direction. 
We could have all died, there was a cliff that I thought we were going to fly off of if we didn't collide with the truck. The collision was...