break side glass...unlock door...much easier...cheaper to repair...
“break side glass...unlock door...much easier...cheaper to repair...”
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It depends upon where the child is located in the vehicle and your concerns that glass will be scattered possibly into the child’s eyes.
Also, when you are busily getting children out of their car and booster seats, it’s easy for a young child to swing a car door shut before you have removed your keys. I learned the hard way that my car doors lock if the keys are out of the ignition and you shut the doors. If you lay the keys on the seat along with your phone and purse while you remove groceries or children, etc, and the door shuts, you are out of luck.
I do not fault the parents for the locking in of the child. That stuff happens. They immediately realized the problem and with the heat levels right now, they knew they had little time to act. Breaking the front windshield might have been the most expedient thing to do in the circumstances in order to rescue the child safely.
I hate self locking car doors!!
“ break side glass...unlock door”
My very first thought, too. Why go through the toughest glass on the vehicle?
And that would have saved time and energy.
And why did they pass the kid through the window? Couldn’t they just have opened the door once they were inside the car? Seems like a lot of panicked people.
Yup. That shows how frantic he was, he couldn’t think of anything but rescuing his baby.
Break side glass. lol.... the top was down.
Yes, and odd they passed the baby out through the broken window after a person was in the car, just open a door... but maybe there was some other issue.