Rainstorm raid nationwide lifesaving safety hammer is the most practical

On July 21, Beijing suffered the heaviest rain in 61 years. This sudden rainstorm caused Beijing to suffer heavy losses. The incident of "a driver was trapped in a car drowning and died" also aroused the public's sense of self-help. According to network statistics, in the past three days, the search volume of many survival supplies has increased ten times or even twenty times compared with usual times, among which life-saving flashlights and safety hammers are particularly obvious. So, how do we seek ourselves under heavy rain? Is the lifesaving hammer the most practical?

Car flooding escape techniques are spreading on the Internet, and various escape techniques are emerging one after another.

Car door is the best escape route

The Guangqumen car was flooded, and the men drowned in the car. Netizens said that the car was a good car at first glance, and the flooded circuit caused the electric window shaker to malfunction and could not get out of the window. If it is manual, will there be drowning?

People in the automotive industry: This statement is wrong. The flooded car in Guangqumen is a modern Tucson, less than 200,000 is a more general car. The door involves an electric window shaker and a central control lock. Low-end cars with 30,000 to 50,000 yuan now have this configuration. The car is not easy to escape and is a misread.

In addition, the manual windows are indeed not affected by flooding, and can be rolled down to escape. Power windows are affected by the depth of water immersion and may fail. In addition to the central locking of the door, most cars have independent safety buckles. This is a mechanical device that is not affected by flooding. The occupants at all positions on the car can open the lock independently. The best channel. The car at Guangqumen had a fatal problem, the central control lock was not opened, so it was necessary to open the central control door lock at the first time.

The escape hammer is not a panacea

After the flood in Beijing, there was another wave of hot selling "escape hammers" on the Internet. Since the heavy rain in Beijing on the 21st, there have been 1080 people in Beijing who bought a safety hammer online, and the number of transactions reached 1,225, ranking first in the country. Statistics show that in the past two days, 14 people in Yangzhou bought safety hammers online, ranking 48th among the 100 cities with statistics. So, how much can the escape hammer do after the car is flooded?

People in the automotive industry: The online escape hammer is not a panacea, unless it is a last resort. Because it is extremely difficult to break the toughened glass of the window in the narrow compartment, it will also delay the precious escape time.

If you use an escape hammer, the water level inside the car is higher than the window, and the water pressure difference between the inside and outside of the car becomes small. At this time, hit the corner of the side window of the vehicle with the escape hammer, which is easy to break the glass. After breaking the glass, remember to scrape the circumference of the broken glass with an escape hammer to avoid being injured by the sharp corner of the glass when escaping.

Remember, hitting the front windshield of the car is by no means the best choice, because the front windshield is a double-layer glass with glue in the middle, which is very difficult to break.

After the car is flooded, it may be compensated for the second launch

Yesterday, a reminder of Weibo's forwarding volume was very high, which mentioned that the vehicle should not be started again after wading in the nest, otherwise the insurance company will not settle the claim.

Experts explained that at present, various insurance companies set different types of insurance for wading claims. According to different insurances, the claims situation is also different.

Guan Meng, Deputy General Manager of the Auto Insurance Division of the Claims Department of PICC Beijing Branch: PICC does not have the additional insurance of wading insurance, but there is an additional insurance called "engine special loss insurance", which needs to be insured together with auto damage insurance, the price is about It is 5% of auto damage insurance. As long as the insurance involves water damage to the engine, even if the water is turned off for two or more times, PICC will pay for it.

Yang Yongxin, manager of the insurance department of Dongfeng Nissan Huashengchang 4S Store: For insurance companies that provide water insurance as an additional type of insurance, no compensation will be made for vehicles with secondary ignition.