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To some of the people who responded to the post, READ THE FREAKING ARTICLE!!!!!
If you bothered to use your brain and read the article, you would have read that if the car was locked from the outside, there was no way to unlock the car from the inside. Though this was clearly spelled out in the owners manual, this old BMW didn't have the owners manual so the teens didn't know about this anti theft feature.
Mr Disrespectful,
It is hard to believe in this day that we allow cars to be sold with this operation besides law enforcement. Not only this, but expect us to put full faith in the lawyer suing that this is in fact true. I question it based on my knowledge of building code where no key or special knowledge may be required for exiting. To me there would have been many more incidents in the country than this one since 1997? I mean if the driver accidentally locked the doors while driving and the car caught fire you couldn't escape? If it can be confirmed this is true then it may be taken more seriously. Also, if it is true, and she was a prisoner in the car BMW should go to jail.
Around these parts the adult is 100% responsible for their actions. If you leave a child or a pet in a parked car for 5 seconds, 5 minutes or 5 hours, you are given a non refusal invitation to a vacation in our penal system. Nobody has to die, just walk away from the car and if the police show up or someone calls the police, you get to wear chrome bracelets to your new home with no view but dandy cold steel bars you can cry on. This sorry excuse for a mother needs to go to jail for manslaughter of her own child. If you have no clue how your car works, you have no business driving it. As it says on all of our work trucks, "YOU are responsible for the safe operation of this vehicle". That's the law here.....but thank God this isn't Kalifornia.
Sorry for the family;but I think perhaps those leaving her more to blame by not using common sense.As the article itself says this is very uncommon death for people that age.
Sorry for the family;but I think perhaps those leaving her more to blame by not using common sense.As the article itself says this is very uncommon death for people that age.
That's because practically every car can be unlocked from the inside, but not this one
Around these parts the adult is 100% responsible for their actions. If you leave a child or a pet in a parked car for 5 seconds, 5 minutes or 5 hours, you are given a non refusal invitation to a vacation in our penal system. Nobody has to die, just walk away from the car and if the police show up or someone calls the police, you get to wear chrome bracelets to your new home with no view but dandy cold steel bars you can cry on. This sorry excuse for a mother needs to go to jail for manslaughter of her own child. If you have no clue how your car works, you have no business driving it. As it says on all of our work trucks, "YOU are responsible for the safe operation of this vehicle". That's the law here.....but thank God this isn't Kalifornia.
Since you didn't bother to read the linked news story I'll paste below a copy of the article your post got so wrong. Next time read before responding.
<quote from linked article in OP>
According to the lawsuit filed this week in Madera County Superior Court, which seeks unspecified damages, Graciela Martinez was driven to school, on Sept. 11, 2013, in the family’s 1997 BMW 328i four-door sedan by her older brother, Oscar.
After arriving at the Madera High School in Madera, about 20 miles northwest of Fresno, and parking in the rear of the parking lot at about 6:40 a.m., Oscar and his twin sister, Patricia, exited the car, leaving Graciela inside so she could get some extra sleep before her first class at 7:40 a.m., it said.
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