I am a little mystified
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She crawled into the trunk willingly for some reason and suffocated somehow?
A new and unique form of suicide?
What he said.
Most older model cars do not have emergency handles inside the trunk (boot), and with age, the hinges on the lid can become loose and fall closed with little prompting.
Glow-in-the dark trunk release handles are standard now on new cars sold in the US because of incidents like this.
It's possible that she was a smaller frame woman who reached or climbed into the trunk to retrieve an item, and the lid fell closed while she was in there.
Ugh what a terrible way to die.
Would the metalwork of the car act as a Faraday cage and screen out the signal? Easy to try out -- all I need are two mobile phones, a car, and a test subject.
I don't think it does.
I vaguely remember an incident a while back when a young lady was abducted and put in the boot of a car and was able to telephone for help.
I vaguely remember an incident a while back when a young lady was abducted and put in the boot of a car and was able to telephone for help.
What he said.
Most older model cars do not have emergency handles inside the trunk (boot), and with age, the hinges on the lid can become loose and fall closed with little prompting.
Glow-in-the dark trunk release handles are standard now on new cars sold in the US because of incidents like this.
It's possible that she was a smaller frame woman who reached or climbed into the trunk to retrieve an item, and the lid fell closed while she was in there.
Ugh what a terrible way to die.
This, combined with this:
Still, I had no idea that car trunks were so air-tight you could suffocate in them.
Kids suffocate and die in them all the time. I believe that was why the release was finally put into them. Just awful!
I've seen on tv shows that if you are ever abducted and thrown into one you should break the tail lights with your foot. I don't know how true that is though.
Christ! I'm sticking to my mini-van then - any of the kids get stuck in the trunk in that they can easily get to the rest of the car.
The dead woman was a 56 year old married woman. Her body was discovered by a relative.
There are no obvious signs of foul play or assault. Police have ruled out suicide and are now treating the death as suspicious.
There is a good possibility that the woman died of heat exhaustion.
There are no obvious signs of foul play or assault. Police have ruled out suicide and are now treating the death as suspicious.
There is a good possibility that the woman died of heat exhaustion.
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They do not suffocate. They bake to death. No trunk is air tight.
You can still suffocate or starve to death...
Anyway, I've never heard the term "boot" before. Interesting.
Anyway, I've never heard the term "boot" before. Interesting.
Boot (instead of trunk) is used in Australia, Britain and New Zealand.
Yeah, I have to keep remembering to say trunk when I'm talking to people. And "hood" rather than bonnet.
