thats a fact!!!!,And Ive carried this benchmade automatic for over ten years,glad Ive never had to use it on a seatbelt (cutting) but thats made for that too!
Go to thefirestore.com and enter seat belt cutter. The little plastic ones with the raiser blade in them work great. A lot of guys use velco and attach them with in reach.( on top of sun viser, dash, between the seats and were ever they can reach them.) There is also one with a hammer built in to break the glass but most street rods are using safety glass in the side windows instead of tempered glass. I always have EMT shears in all my vehic le. They work great for getting some out of a seat belt. Also a good idea to have your fire extinguisher with in reach also.
Oh come on. Even a non-car guy's got a better chance at opening some sort of an external handle than none at all
The folks who pulled him out of that fireball are heroes. This country need more people willing to forget themselves and help another. Well done to those who helped and shame on those who made dumb ass flip comments on the status of the car.
Very scary video. Thank god for the Heros that pulled the people out of the car. Scenes like that are why I have rear bumpers on my two A's. They may not made any difference but I don't feel like the rear ends are so expopsed. And as for the remark about " F*** the people" ,not funny and not cute.
Man, those aftermath photos look terrible. He is really lucky to even be alive for sure despite the fact it appears to have been a pretty solidly built car.
What appears to be a 5 lb ansul fire extinguisher was clearly undersized for that fire. It did however, buy time to get the driver out. Without the precious seconds it provided he was done for. In race cars the halon systems are designed to protect the driver from fire until the rescue team arrives. They are not designed to extinguish the fire just keep it out of the cockpit. We have a 2 nozzle 10lb halon in my son's late model car and all that the rules call for is a 5lb single nozzle ... just buying additional time .... Joe
Not arguing that point John. BUT, this car had handles and the average Joe has no clue. I am an optimist but you give the mouth breathers too much credit
I seen this posted on another forum, those were my exact words. Takes some stones. Glad he will recover, car can be fixed.
talked to a body man about this and he said any old car that gets hit in the back like that jams the doors shut from the impact.that would explain why it was so hard to get the man out
Bloodandmotoroil has a history of threatening ,rude comments on here and they have caused at least one thread to be closed.Another vote for him to be banned.
Trust everyone will be ok. Takes stones to run to a car fire and pull someone to safety. It's making me re-think gas tank placement etc..
From the damage to both cars it is pretty obvious that the driver of the car that hit him was moving at a pretty good clip. I'd say being distracted or not paying attention to driving was 100% the cause of the accident. This is making me rethink doing the suicide doors and no handles again on the 48 during this redo. Glad to hear that he seems to be recovering ok.
wow that is intense! those people are heros for sure. glad no one was killed. not to get off topic but my 53 chevy threw a piston out of the oil pan and it caught fire. we had nothing to put it out with, so when a cop pulled up we had the hood popped trying to hit it with a shirt. the cop starts asking us whats going on and we are screaming "get a fire extinguisher please hurry!" and the cop just stands there and says "calm down sir" and begins to ask us questions... at this point we are all freeking out trying to explain to him that the situation could end up worse very fast(as in that video) and he FINALLY after like 2 minutes of us yelling goes to his trunk where he fumbles around for it. by this time we had beat it so much with t shirts that it went out mostly, thank god. anyway, just wanted to add that little story ALWAYS have a fire extinguisher!!!! you never know what will happen, my car was never in an accident it just blew up.
Some info on the good samaritans: http://www.nbclosangeles.com/station/as-seen-on/Good_Samaritans_Hailed_as_Heroes_Los_Angeles.html http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_15820095?nclick_check=1 I hear LAPD will be honoring these guys with Mr. Edlefsen in attendance. Might be cool to have a few local car folks in attendance to show appeciation. When I find details I'll post it.
This is very good advise. I have seen seats "jump the track" in collisions making the seat belt so tight that it cannot be unbuckled. One of the cops was on his way to work and came upon an accident with two elderly folks trapped in this manner with the car on fire. He tried to free them, but sadly, was unable to do so, and both perished. The officer was burned in his attempt. His duty equipment was in his locker at work and he didn't have anything with him to cut through the belts. Since then, I made sure every member of my family has a knife sufficient enough to cut a seat belt.
God bless the good samaritans. They saved his life without a doubt! I hope his back will be ok. I'm keeping a fire extinguisher and seatbelt cutter in my car from now on...
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