First time having manual brakes, are mine bad?

I did mess up my back. Out on L&I two weeks and months of PT and Chiropractic adjustments. At the T section and RED light, the field was 10 feet below the roadway and the impact of jumping a Bucket truck was bad. The Mechanic was gone when I came back to work on light duty. Truck was auctioned off as scrap but the whole Bucket system and maintenance bins were good.