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The Glowing Trunk Handle Exists Because of One Kidnapping
Imagine opening your trunk and spotting a small handle that glows in the dark. It looks like a simple piece of plastic, easy to ignore. Yet that handle exists because one woman survived a terrifying kidnapping and decided other people should have a way out.
Florida man brings drugs to beach and locks self in own trunk–then the sun goes down
Florida man managed to lose his keys AND lock himself in his trunk. Things only got worse from there.
LIFE-SAVING TIP Drivers are just realizing every car has a hidden feature that could save your life
MOST cars have a simple but very important life-saving feature installed that is rarely talked about, but it involves tight spaces.
The Crazy (True) Story Of How Car Trunks Got Emergency Release Handles
Thanks to her and her wild story, since 2002, all cars are required to have a glow-in-the-dark emergency release handle in the trunk. Janette Fennell’s story and her subsequent battle to ensure all cars are equipped with car trunk emergency release handles first appeared on Atlas Obscura, a website committed to telling extraordinary stories
Your car has a release handle in its trunk — here's why
You may not know it, but every passenger car built after 2002 has a trunk release mechanism built into the trunk. It was mandated on September 1, 2001 by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) after years of lobbying that gained a vocal advocate in a woman who’d been kidnapped: Janette Fennell, of San Francisco.
