Help me understand this death.

[kyrax12]

http://abc7.com/news/driver-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-autistic-student-left-on-whittier-bus/1690678/

Just recently read a story where a 19 year old man weighing nearly 300 pounds died after being left in a bus in around 120-130 degrees heat.

Since he was left there the whole day he would be in the bus for around 8 hours. Would that really be enough to kill someone of his size?

I thought humans can survive for days without water?

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Heat exhaustion.

 

[Sheep221]

It's the heat, you get burned alive.

Anyways, school buses are terrible idea.
I'm glad we don't have them where I live.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

http://abc7.com/news/driver-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-autistic-student-left-on-whittier-bus/1690678/

Just recently read a story where a 19 year old man weighing nearly 300 pounds died after being left in a bus in around 120-130 degrees heat.

Since he was left there the whole day he would be in the bus for around 8 hours. Would that really be enough to kill someone of his size?

I thought humans can survive for days without water?

130 degrees is plenty to kill a person if you're there a couple hours.

http://www.livescience.com/34128-limits-human-survival.html

OSHA considers 115 "extreme." If your internal body temp gets up too high, it basically cooks your brain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_stroke

8 hours at 150 degrees F is literally how you cook meat. This guy was just a little underdone.

See also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Chicago_heat_wave

 

[Capt Caveman]

http://abc7.com/news/driver-pleads-guilty-in-death-of-autistic-student-left-on-whittier-bus/1690678/

Just recently read a story where a 19 year old man weighing nearly 300 pounds died after being left in a bus in around 120-130 degrees heat.

Since he was left there the whole day he would be in the bus for around 8 hours. Would that really be enough to kill someone of his size?

I thought humans can survive for days without water?

Are you seriously this stupid? Go sit in a car that's a 130 degrees and you'd be crying in a couple of minutes. Aren't you in college? I hope you don't graduate till you get a clue.

 

[Eug]

Toddlers die like this each summer, in the back seat of their parents' cars, unfortunately.

 

[SKORPI0]

OP is clueless. If you searched how long a person, regardless of size/weight can survive in 120 degress heat you'll find out that you can't.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Just equip your heat-shield boots and your 4x damage-mitigation armor, and have a few health-packs to survive...

OH SHIT, you mean this is real?

Wake up, OP.

 

[John Connor]

I thought humans can survive for days without water?

Wrong. You need water. It's food you can survive long periods without. Believe it or not, they have found people dead in the desert with full canteens because they were sparing their water. NEVER do that.

 

[John Connor]

Toddlers die like this each summer, in the back seat of their parents' cars, unfortunately.

Happens every cotton picking year, and Summer is just right around the corner.

 

[zinfamous]

Wrong. You need water. It's food you can survive long periods without. Believe it or not, they have found people dead in the desert with full canteens because they were sparing their water. NEVER do that.

You can actually survive a few days without water, but of course it all depends on your situation/environment. The more salt you eat, the better your retention. Citing (uh, a completely un-sourced event) about some dude in a desert with a full canteen and no details as to how long he actually went without water in that desert is rather useless.

Yeah, you can go much longer without food (your body will start "efficiently" eating itself, starting first with the fat stores). Water is certainly necessary, but I think that in moderate conditions, it takes maybe 8 or 9 days before you succumb due to dehydration. Obviously, being caught in a snow storm or a desert will drastically reduce those survival days.