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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
FWIW, I have heard that if your car is going into the water, you want to roll your windows down (counter-intuitively), since otherwise it gets very hard to open the doors.
If anyone knows this to be wrong, or has other practical advice for such circumstances, please let me know, since in the middle of nights like last night I like to lay awake in bed and picture how'd get children in carseats out of vehicles that have plunged into a major river.
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Ever since the I-95 collapse in Cos Cob, CT (yes, I am old), I always open a window or my sun roof when crossing a bridge. I hate driving over bridge suring traffic. It's a bit disconcerting being on the TZee, GWB, or Tobin while it is bouncing up and down.
