[Keltic]

added to list of most retarded deaths tf

[docfr8]

The logic that this guy used in determining how and when to cross amazes me

[gimlet]

You can open a window to escape a submerged vehicle. The doors usually can't open due to pressure IIRC. In the old days you could roll the window down manually. I wonder if their electric windows would have worked underwater, the windshield wipers were still working. Survival manuals would say to take a big breath, open the window, wait for the water to stop rushing into the car, then make a determined single swim to get to the surface. You can blow a few bubbles into your hand to determine which way is up if the car might be overturned, the water is often too murky to tell by sight.

Practice and repeat!

[Lurking Jerk]

I mean, why didn’t he get out?

[nudibranches646]

Originally Posted by gimlet ↗

You can open a window to escape a submerged vehicle. The doors usually can't open due to pressure IIRC. In the old days you could roll the window down manually. I wonder if their electric windows would have worked underwater, the windshield wipers were still working. Survival manuals would say to take a big breath, open the window, wait for the water to stop rushing into the car, then make a determined single swim to get to the surface. You can blow a few bubbles into your hand to determine which way is up if the car might be overturned, the water is often too murky to tell by sight.

Practice and repeat!

If they are electric they can fail.

[houseoftechno]

Description says the current took them, but it looks to me like the driver steered left to skirt onto the dry bank in-line with the washed out road, and they dropped into a big hole. If that is true, if the driver had just keep the wheels straight, it would have been an uneventful crossing.

[jintsy]

This reminds me of "Strange Brew" when Bob and Doug MacKenzie crash into the harbor and sink, only these two goofballs could not use their liquor bottles to draw in vodka to keep them alive like Bob and Doug could with beer. Too bad we don't live in that reality, eh?

[niknik]

People sometimes don't think in a panick. Door doesn't open? Try the fucking window. The wipers work so most likely the windows do too. Possibly they were manual, wouldn't that be a bitch.

But even if that doesn't work. Simply stay calm. Keep trying the door, saving your energy. And once the water has forced all the air from the cabin. Push on the door with all you got.

With 3 people in the truck it should have been fairly simple to get the door open even with the weight and pressure. They just needed to work together and put their backs against each other and use their legs to push out. A decent shape guy should have 300lbs of pushing strength in their legs. And once the pressure is close to equalizing, they should be able to force it open.

Another thing nearly all cars come with is an emergency window breaker. It's your headrest. Although it's not it's designed function, it will work rather well. Especially if you force it down the belt molding and pry against the window. But smashing the prongs will do it too.

[Dizzyviz]

I agree with arm movements. You would think they were smart enough to escape the vehicle. I fear drowning.

[Dizzyviz]

The arm movement was from the guy adjusting his jacket to cover him. Not the actual drowned man moving but I thought the same at first. Had to watch it again.