AUSTIN (KXAN) — In December of 2021, Phillip Engle thought he was just having an off night at the movies.
“I was at the IMAX theater downtown at the Bob Bullock museum with a friend,” he recalled. “Sometime during the course of the movie, I noticed the sound was bothering me. Afterward, I got up and felt like I’d had one beer too many, but I hadn’t had any beers at all.”
What seemed like dizziness quickly turned dangerous. On the drive home, Engle noticed something strange.
“I thought I needed to get my brakes checked. They’re really grabby,” Engle said. “What was happening is I was pressing too hard on the brake pedal, but didn’t know it.”…