To unlock a door in most cars, all you have to do if press a button. However, one Washington woman learned how dangerous electronic locking systems can be when she got trapped inside her burning car.
Just before 10 p.m. this past Friday night, the woman was driving her car when it suddenly died. She couldn’t figure what went wrong until she started seeing smoke and flames coming from under the hood of the car. However, because the fire destroyed the battery, the car was dead and the doors wouldn’t unlock without any power.
The woman immediately called 911, and Spokane Police Officer Tim Schwering responded to the call and was the first to arrive on the scene. Schwering managed to break a small hole in the window with his baton and planned to unlock the door from the inside.
Yet he soon realized the door wouldn’t unlock since the car was dead and was forced to break the rest of the window open and pull the woman out just in time. Thankfully, the woman managed to walk away from the deadly situation unharmed because of Schwering’s quick-thinking.
The brave officer’s actions have quickly gone viral, but many people were shocked to realize that many modern cars can’t be unlocked without a functioning battery “Holy cow. Not able to unlock the door because she has no power? No thank you! Kinda makes me want to go back to manual windows and locks,” one viewer commented. “I am grateful for hearing about this. It forced me to look into how the doors on my car function without battery power,” another wrote.
Watch the footage below to see the incredible moment this officer managed to pull a woman from her burning car.
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