Officer saves woman in a trapped vehicle in a river

[rayg]

video of police officer that jumped into a freezing Ohio river to rescue a woman

Good job officer!..

Dramatic bodycam video has captured the moment police officers jumped into a freezing Ohio river to rescue a woman trapped in her sinking minivan.

Dramatic moment Ohio cop jumps into freezing river to free 24-year-old woman from her sinking minivan after she fell asleep and crashed through guard rail

Several officers helped rescue the 24-year-old woman in the early hours of Monday morning in Alliance, Ohio when the woman fell asleep at the wheel on her way home from work before crashing into the icy Mahoning River

The woman, identified as Alexis, managed to call 911 from inside the vehicle as it started to sink

One of the officers dispatched to the scene immediately jumped into the river to rescue her and used a pickaxe to smash her back window

Police said the van became completely submerged just a few minutes later

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...hio-river.html

[Vern Humphrey]

This illustrates a problem that crops up from time to time -- modern cars have all-electric windows. If the car goes into the water, the windows are no longer operational -- and people are trapped.

[bruce]

Re: Power windows. Yep. That really can be a problem. Got caught in fast rising water in 1981 in New Orleans. Car sank w/ me in it. Not much water in the car to start with, but that changed. Decided to bail out. Tough getting door open. Used the hand crank to lower the window. Turned out alright. Found the car after the water receded. Surprisingly, it ran well after I flushed the motor and transmission, etc. Given the reputation of the Pinto, I figured rather than running it would just hop, skip and jump. Nice to be wrong. Sincerely. bruce.

[Vern Humphrey]

Re: Power windows. Yep. That really can be a problem. Got caught in fast rising water in 1981 in New Orleans. Car sank w/ me in it. Not much water in the car to start with, but that changed. Decided to bail out. Tough getting door open. Used the hand crank to lower the window. Turned out alright. Found the car after the water receded. Surprisingly, it ran well after I flushed the motor and transmission, etc. Given the reputation of the Pinto, I figured rather than running it would just hop, skip and jump. Nice to be wrong. Sincerely. bruce.

The standard survival technique in a car under water is to open the window and equalize pressure. If you figure a door is about 900 square inches, a mere 1 psi difference would amount to 900 pounds of force needed to open it -- not many men could open it.