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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even if you got out of the car, you are in the middle of a huge river! How are you swimming to safety? What about the infant in the car seat?[/quote]

I used to drive my kids back and forth from VA to MD several times a week and would keep their life jackets in the car because I am a little paranoid. I'm also a bridge engineer and have an unnatural fear of such an incident. We don't go as frequently anymore, but I'm gonna put them back in the car. [/quote]

Where do you store them? Life jackets aren't small, and it's not like having them in the trunk is helpful. I am truly trying to wrap my head around how this would work. So car goes off bridge, you have all windows rolled up so you have plenty of time to unbuckle the kids from their car seats and get them into the life jackets and then, are you manually rolling down your car's windows? Do you have a 1982 Civic? [/quote]

And they are doing this with an opened airbag in their face and pressing them against their seat.  The force of a car dropping from that height onto the water would definitely open the air bags.  So, PP would have to survive the impact, unlock their seat belt under the airbag, and climb into the back seat while fighting the airbag to get into the back seat before they could even start to work on getting their child out of the carseat and all of that before finding the lifevests and putting them on both her and her child.  Not very realistic. that this would work in this instance.

That said, those who open their windows are also not accounting for handling the airbag while trying to get out of their car.  With the water coming in, they'll only have seconds to fight the airbag, get the seatbelt undone and exit the window, figure up from down and start to swim in the right direction, while dodging debris from the bridge that collapsed on top of them.

None of these "precautions" are very likely to help in the event of such an accident.[/quote]

They’d also have to get both kids in life jackets out of a window.[/quote]

Yep. In planes you're told not to inflate the life jacket until outside.[/quote]

Yes but you are currently in the place of anti-logic. Welcome.[/quote]

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