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#60688 - 03/11/06 04:16 AM Re: how to escape from sinking car?
BLADERUNNER Offline
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Registered: 02/07/05
Posts: 25
Loc: NORTHERN ILLINOIS
The windshield of a vehicle is made of laminated safety glass, it has a layer of plastic laminated between two layers of glass to prevent the glass from spraying all over the inside of your vehicle in the event of a colision. The side window however are made of tempered safety glass which is designed to resist impact, however if this glass is hit with a sharp point such as a life hammer or a spring loaded center punch it will shatter into a thousand small cube like pieces of glass which is not as likley to cut you when they hit you. I have broken many windows with a center punch and the point of an extrication tool, the side window is the one to go for not the windshield
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#60689 - 03/11/06 04:07 PM Re: how to escape from sinking car?
Eugene Offline
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Registered: 12/26/02
Posts: 2997
newer cars starting around 2001 the side glass is the same type of safety glass as the windshield so it won't shatter anymore.

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