"Suchart said he was on his way to give a speech to central bank officials from 17 countries when his ministry-assigned BMW car stalled on a road, not far from his house.
The engine stopped, the air conditioning shut down, the doors got locked and the windows wouldn't roll down, he said, adding that he was trapped for about 10 minutes.
"We couldn't breath because there was no air," he said.
Suchart and his driver waved at passers-by to draw attention to their plight, but it took a while to make them understand that they wanted the windows smashed.
Finally, a guard of a nearby building came to their rescue with a sledgehammer and broke a window. Suchart then climbed out of the car through the hole."
I'm guessing the "no air" thing was a bit of translation error. Presumably he was referring to the ambient temperature in the car rising to dangerous levels in short order.
Is there no physical lock on the BMW? Unless he had the child safety locks on, there should always be a way to manually open the door (even if the latch is somewhat difficult to operate) when the vehicle loses power. It's a huge safety concern if you can be trapped in the car like that.
Maybe he has a driver and was riding in the back with the child safety locks on?
