NHTSA Complaint #11483739 — 2017 LINCOLN MKZ

On Tuesday, March 1 2022, as I was attempting to stop at a stop sign, I noticed loss of pressure on the brake pedal. As I accelerated and applied my brakes again there was no pressure feedback on the brake pedal and my vehicle took a prolonged time and distance to stop. After a few minutes, a warning message appeared on the dashboard to let me know of low brake fluid. After I got the vehicle home, I noticed a lot of brake fluid in the driver's front wheel well. Upon further inspection, a rupture in the line at the metal crimping was evident. The event happened as I was coming home from ice hockey practice with my 5 yr old and 8 yr old in the vehicle. The roadway that the failure occurred at was a service road to I-35E in Farmers Branch which at that time of day has moderate traffic moving at high speed. Had the brake blown out a few minutes later, I would have been on I-35E with my children. The speed limit on that road is 70 MPH and it was the tail end of rush hour which means a mix of slow traffic and high speed traffic requiring the ability to brake at a moments notice. I still have the faulty brake line in case anyone needs it for inspection.