RE: Or maybe he was already dead.
He was frantically trying to get the door to open and pleading for help.
Nancy Sinatra said he hadn’t mastered the many arrows and symbols so that may have played a role. But back seat doors can be childproof locked to keep them from trying to leave while the car is moving. Seemed to happen to his main door.
“He was frantically trying to get the door to open and pleading for help.”
Reports say he was killed instantly.
OTOH, the door may have been physically jammed from the collision. There is nothing electronic preventing the door from opening.
“But back seat doors can be childproof locked to keep them from trying to leave while the car is moving. Seemed to happen to his main door.”
There is no mechanism in the front door to prevent the inside door handle from operating.
OTOH, rear doors with the childproof lock activated can still be opened from the outside.