Woman Is Choked To Death By Her Electric Car Window

Bernadette Delmotte, a 60-year-old French woman, died after being trapped by her car’s automatic window. She was cleaning her Fiat 500 when she realized the handbrake wasn’t applied and the car began rolling backward. She leaned through the open window to reach the handbrake and accidentally pressed the automatic window button, which closed on her throat. Her friend Béatrice told France 3 “The car then began to roll backward. To stop it, Bernadette threw herself through the open window to stop it from going any further. But her hand moved over the window control, and by the time she straightened up, the window stopped on her neck.” Friends found her body after she missed dinner. An autopsy confirmed she died of asphyxiation. Her death was ruled accidental with no foul play. (Story URL)