Apollo 1st Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 locked in car for 45 minutes Parents left key in BMW's ignition, so rescuers smashed window to save 6-month-old By Shree Ann Mathavan March 13, 2007 IT was a rescue operation that lasted less than 10 minutes. Yet, brief as it was, WO Azmi Hasan, 42, a warrant officer with the Singapore Civil Defence Force, couldn't take any chances. A witness pointing to where the locked car was parked. -- SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS The reason? The rescue operation involved a 6-month-old baby girl. She lay strapped in her baby chair on the back seat of a locked BMW car crying, while her parents haplessly looked on. They had accidentally locked the car doors with the key in the ignition and the engine running last Saturday morning, next to some shophouses along Kim Yam Road, off River Valley Road. The baby's father, who is in his late 30s, had called the police at about 11.20am that morning. The New Paper understands that he and his wife had accidentally closed the car door with the car key still in the ignition. As the vehicle has an auto-locking system, the car doors got locked with the engine and air-conditioning still running. WO Azmi told The New Paper: 'Seeing the baby trapped and crying inside, I really felt the sense of urgency to rescue her as fast as possible and get her out.' He arrived with seven officers and decided the best way to rescue the baby was to break the glass window of the driver's seat. WO Azmi explained: 'We did it because of the urgency of the situation and breaking the glass window was the fastest way possible to get the vehicle open.' He used a palm-sized seat-belt cutter with a sharp metal point, normally used to cut the seatbelts of accident victims trapped in vehicles. CORNER OF WINDOW All it took was one knock, but the blow had to be angled at the corner of the car window, instead of in the centre, so that the glass shards wouldn't spray too far away. Meanwhile, the parents looked on in anguish from the side. Said WO Azmi: 'I wasn't really afraid. 'There was a distance of about 1m from the driver's seat to where the baby lay on the left hand side of the back seat.' Once the car window was broken, SCDF officers cleared away the glass shards from the driver's seat and the floor of the car. In all, the child had spent about 45 minutes in the locked car. An SCDF spokesman said that the baby was not hurt, but as a precaution, she was taken in an ambulance to KK Women's and Children Hospital, accompanied by her mother. Seeing the baby safe and sound, WO Azmi said, was the ultimate reward for a job well done. WO Azmi, who has three daughters aged 4 to 10, understood the couple's anguish. He said it's the third time he has rescued a baby from a locked vehicle. 'It's my job, I didn't feel nervous, I just focused on getting her out to safety.' In March 2005, The Straits Times reported that a man kicked in the windscreen of his BMW, because his 12-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son were trapped in the car. They could not unlock the doors from inside as their ship broker father had left the car key in the boot. http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/story/0,...,124729,00.html? ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel 1st Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 my crime stopper alarm has dis function too... whereby doors autolock after 30seconds upon closing... but me dare not activate it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutty 4th Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 Whoa.. BMW cars have this feature ah? Auto-lock when engine is running? Sounds dangerous. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutty 4th Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 My stupid car does not autolock at all. Not even when it moves off It only autolock after 20 secs if I unlock it from outside without attempting to open the door. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacf Neutral Newbie March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 BM car locking system so solid that can't even unlock from inside .. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel 1st Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 eh...mine autolock after moving off when the speed reaches 5mph...or 8kmh.... and same as urs..will autolock from outside w/o attempting to open the door... but not sure bout timing...but i think it is the car alarm which 'controls' this feature for mine Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemice 2nd Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 if using crimestopper, u can set to auto re-arm instead of auto-lock. this is safer, but maybe a bit noiser, when one forgets during car washing... i always make a habit to wind down drivers windoe by a quarter, when seating my baby in the rear CRS. mice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel 1st Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 yupz...auto re-arm is def a better choice... but for mine..is both functions 'off' wind down a quarter...juz nice for hands to reach door handle inside car... good idea..though alternatively..u can keep the car alarm remote in ur pocket while engine is running Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemice 2nd Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 ...u can keep the car alarm remote in ur pocket while engine is running nah... too lazy to engage the pitstop mode, which can pull out the key wif engine running... actually thats safer, less chance of car-jack... as even jack liao also cant drive off. mice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel 1st Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 wad is the 'pitstop' mode ?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teva Neutral Newbie March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 Hmmm..ever heard of the locksmith? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxus-MIFA9 Supersonic March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 I blame the parents for this. Why should both husband & wife left the vehicle with the child still inside??? Went for a quicky erh..... Lucky for me, my toyota will auto-lock the moment I step on the brake when the vehicle in motion. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunno Neutral Newbie March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 Me and my wife always have a set of car keys each with us in case such thing happen. My wife drives the car most of the time and I just carry the car keys around in my pocket. There was once she locked the keys in the inigtion when filling up at a petrol station. She called me and I had to go there to unlock the car for her. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mzrmazda3 6th Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 The baby girl is only 6 months and yet the parents left her behind in the car??? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemice 2nd Gear March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 pitstop = engine running, key + remote in pocket. when rtu, just insert key + drive off. mice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 BM car locking system so solid that can't even unlock from inside .. yup....Once, I even locked my wife inside, and I realised after 5 mins she was not with me.... This is a special feature, IMO, that once you lock car fm outside, the car cannot be opened from inside... good for those going jb....go la...let those theieves take u car....u lock them in.....car wun go anywhere...cos of immobiliser...then set the car on fire claim insurance Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Watergun Neutral Newbie March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 Remove shirt, wrap around elbow & smash the window. I helped someone many years ago. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadX Moderator March 13, 2007 Share March 13, 2007 with BMW window, once, one of our forum members, Tanzy tried that on his Za, with a brick...also cannot ↡ Advertisement Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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