Car battery gas kills mom and daughter (Porsche Cayenne)

Post by **matthew1** » 05 Oct 2016, 09:28

Sorry for the dramatic title, but it is what it is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... ttery.html

The driver of a Porsche Cayenne and her daughter who mysteriously died four months ago on a Florida highway suffered from excessive amounts of a flammable gas that may caused by a faulty car battery.

Investigators probing the deaths of Latifa Lincoln, 45, and her three-year-old daughter, Maksmilla Lincoln, said that the two breathed in large quantities of hydrogen sulfide, a clear gas whose smell bears a resemblance to that of rotten eggs.

Lincoln and her daughter were found dead inside their 2006 Porsche Cayenne along Florida's Turnpike in Osceola County just south of Orlando, on May 13, WESH 2 reported.

It's probably an isolated incident made worse by Porsche's decision to put the battery under the driver's seat.

The battery of the Porsche Cayenne is located under the driver's seat, while in most other vehicles it is underneath the hood.

I'm guessing a design decision to aid weight balance and center of gravity.

The amatuer chemist in me thought for a second it might be the same gas that bleach + ammonia creates (WWI chemical warfare agent), but it's not.

Post by **abscate** » 12 Nov 2016, 04:02

I missed this. I wonder how the battery pumped out H2S...that's unusual

Post by **abscate** » 12 Nov 2016, 04:06

abscate wrote:I missed this. I wonder how the battery pumped out H2S...that's unusual

Update from Orlando Sentinel, quoting Coroners office

"The battery was not the original battery for the vehicle, nor the correct battery and is believed to have malfunctioned," Proudfit said. "In this particular SUV, the battery is located underneath the driver's seat. Both vehicle and battery will undergo additional examination by the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration."

The manner of death has not been determined, Proudfit said. In addition to finding the causes of death, medical examiners classify deaths in one of five possible manner categories: Natural, accident, suicide, homicide or undetermined.