handbrake BrE
emergency brake AmE
parking brake AmE

An emergency brake locked it in position, and the door opened.

In 1997 a young boy fell out of the train when the emergency brakes stopped the ride.

It's time to pull up the emergency brake on this legislation.

As you stop, he reaches over and puts on the emergency brake.

Every turn we made sent him crashing down, chest first, against the emergency brake.

Would it drop and then be caught by some kind of emergency brake?

Somebody must have hit the emergency brakes, as the original press release is no longer available.

I burned out the emergency brake, but no one seemed to care.

He then applied the emergency brakes at or about the time of impact with the car.

They stopped and emergency brakes were pulled up on lock.