On 03/06/2021 17:10, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:23:44 +0100, Harry Bloomfield, Esq. wrote:

It happens that The Natural Philosopher formulated :
THEN you can open the door

Of course the doors may not have been locked, or they may have been
damaged


The crash detector puts the hazards on and unlocks the doors.

Except it's not just about having an exit ... you can end up horribly
disoriented and simply unable to find the way up. Bearing in mind quite
apart from the shock and possible unpreparedness (meaning you didn't
stock up on precious air before you sunk) you will be panicking anyway.
And that's *before* you start to react to the build up of CO2 that could
make you frenzied.


I am not saying its a low hazard situation.

There was nurse who disappeared one night. Just vanished.

about ten years latrer they found her volvo in a lake, on a bend on te
A10 just north of Cambridge. She has simply gone straight on, missed the
chevrons and ended up under 10 ft of water., Probably asleep at the
wheel - end of a long shift at Addenbrookes.

This was Volvo 240 period IIRC - no electric locks

It's bloody hard to get out of a car under water and the real advice is
that your bests chance is to wind the windows down before it sinks. if
you can and then once its sunk open the doors or climb out the windows.
OK ArtStudents„¢ are going to die,. because naturally they shut the
windows to keep the water out...

The always watchable "Mythbusters" looked at escaping a submerged car
(twice !) and the takeaway message was it was waaaaaaaaaaaaay harder and
scarier than you may have thought. Which - given they were doing it in
almost lab conditions - isn't a great hope if it happens to you in the
dark, on a lonely road when you least expected it.

I agree. several people a year die on the Cambridge drains - its bloody
scary driving out in the middle of the fens with a deep drain - like 30
foot wide and 15ft deep - alongside the road and no barriers at all...

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