Unfasten your seat belts
When your car gets stuck in water, it most likely will stay on the surface for a short period of time, before it starts to float away or sink. It’s in this short window of time that you will want to get out.
So, the first thing you want to do is to instruct everyone to unbuckle their seat belts immediately.
Open the car doors and windows
If you’re in a car that has lost its traction and is starting to float, you will want to open the car doors and windows immediately. Electric windows will work between 10-60 seconds before the water makes them non-operational.
If you wait for all the water to come in, it’s almost impossible to open the car doors because of the pressure.
If you leave it too late and you can’t get the doors or windows open because of the pressure, then you would need to wait for the water to completely fill up the car to get out – which means a lot of holding one’s breath and the chances of getting free and surviving are slim because there probably won’t be an air pocket.
Use the head rest to bash through the window
If you can’t open the doors or windows, then get the head rest behind the seats, and use the steel rods from it to whack the window open. Then you can get out and climb onto the roof of the car. Help children and others that need assistance to climb onto the roof of the car first.
