Car electrical failure causes man to drown.
Not exactly an aeronautical subject for Pprune but worth heeding the lesson. Headlines in newspaper on Friday. "Man drowns while on phone to rescuers" The man died when he drove into a flood-affected area in Glenorie in Sydney's northwest at 6am on Wednesday. He is suspected to have become trapped when the electrical system failed in his Toyota Camry. The poor bugger spent 45 minutes trying to escape from his car. Seems the cars windows and door opening system failed to operate without electrical power. He was drowned.
You would have thought the vehicle's design team would have foreseen the possibility of electrical failure and designed a manual override system. If nothing else, an internally installed window breaking escape tool like some RAAF aircraft used to have in the cockpit. At least in commercial airliners there are escape hatches and cockpit manually opening windows. Anyone buying cars that can trap the occupants in event of an electrical failure needs to think what happens if their family is in the car