Man found dead in buried car
A man was found dead Tuesday morning in a car buried in snow in Park Extension. Carbon monoxide is being blamed – there’s no mention of foul play.
TVA adds that two people have died from heart attacks while shovelling snow.
walkerp 14:32 on 2025-02-18 Permalink
Oh that’s brutal. I had heard a warning about this on the CBC the other day and hadn’t thought of it as a risk before when digging out of the snow, but it makes sense. Poor guy.
Nicholas 15:47 on 2025-02-18 Permalink
I don’t think they mention it specifically, but my first thought is you get trapped in there, it gets cold, so you turn on the car to stay warm. Electric cars have low battery life in the cold, but at least they don’t do this.
dhomas 18:35 on 2025-02-18 Permalink
That is so sad! The exhaust pipe looked clear from the video. Still, the warning is valid: make sure you clear your exhaust before starting your car to heat it up.
@Nicholas: one of the best unexpected perks of driving an EV is that I can schedule it to warm up so it’s nice and toasty when I’m ready to leave in the morning!
mare 01:52 on 2025-02-19 Permalink
I don’t know about this case but on my long-ish dog walks every day I’ve encountered several houseless people living in their car/truck, often with a dog as heating source. Running the engine for a while to get the interior heated up a bit before turning in for the night seems like a logical thing someone would do. Not thinking about the constricted flow of the exhaust gasses.
Kate 11:19 on 2025-02-19 Permalink
mare, you have a new dog?
mare 18:48 on 2025-02-19 Permalink
@kate temporarily. His owner is working in Latvia for 6 months. He’s sweet, was supposed to be a Mira helping hand dog, but can’t stand other dogs. Hence us discovering dogs in parked cars. So we can’t go into dog parks and we walk 6 to 15 km every day. (Currently a bit less, speed on ‘sidewalks’ is severely compromised.) Returning him will be hard.