Your already in the water lol
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Car into water scenario
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the new standard for side glass requires the use of a laminated glass, it has to be CUT with a saw or beat with a sledge hammer to get thru the laminating film. Basically the side windows are now like windshields, laminated glass that will not shatter.
Until recently, side windows were tempered glass designed to shatter into thousands of small pieces... which is why you could hit them with a spring loaded center punch and they would break.
Some Car Windows Are Harder to Break in an Emergency, Says AAA
Many late-model vehicles have laminated glass on side windows, which won't yield to tools designed to break them.www.caranddriver.com
These new windows/regulations should have been rejected out of hand by the U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration.
You go in the water now and if you can't get a door open or a window down because of damage, you drown.
This.
By comparison with these kinds of events, a "car going into the water" scenario is extremely remote. Insurers will support the safety measures most likely to result in smaller/fewer payouts.
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i sure hope nobody has to put their best thought out plans to the test cause i got a feeling when the mind goes into a full panic, the best of plans may get muddled in the fray. unless you have made it thru buds and you are drown proofed and can keep your wits about you.
While the scenario IS a little remote on the percentage side, there are always the cases such as the tragedy that befell a father & son @ Lake Nipmuck in Mendon last month.
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www.boston25news.com
Upside down, in the water, at night? Yep I probably wouldn't have made it either. Sad.
DA: Father, son die following crash that sent car into Nipmuc Pond in Mendon
Worcester County District Attorney’s Office is investigating a fatal two-vehicle crash that ended with one car into Nipmuc Pond in Mendon.
www.boston25news.com
Upside down, in the water, at night? Yep I probably wouldn't have made it either. Sad.
I don't know how to read, and I couldn't see because my hearing aide was off
I remember a swim test with full gear. You were required to make it across the pool, "under any means available."
I took a few deep breaths and dropped in to the bottom and walked across the pool, popping up on the other side. Safety DI met me at the rail and said, "Wise guy."
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I was driving to a job site in Marshfield (?) back in the 90’s. Light snow on the road and I was going fairly slow. Hit a patch of ice and slid right off the road into a river. It was a steep angle so only my front end got wet. No guard rail or anything back then
