I'm not a neurologist, but I'm pretty sure that's not how brain death works.

Percussive maintenance once again proving that sometimes all the system needs is a little shake up.

And this also goes to show how our medical understanding of the brain is still woefully underdeveloped. I wonder if it was the feeling of falling that did it. I know the article says the pothole was large enough to "shake" the whole vehicle, but that's not to say it didn't get just a bit of vertical movement.

Doncha know