A 35-year-old driver sitting inside his car with the air conditioner running was found dead on Friday afternoon in Nanjappa Nagar on Trichy Road.
The postmortem report indicates the victim died of asphyxiation due to inhaling carbon monoxide that accumulated inside the vehicle. According to air conditioning system maintenance experts, every vehicle has a re-circulation button inside, which has to be turned on to avoid asphyxiation and allow air circulation inside a parked vehicle when the air conditioner is running. If the vehicle is running then automatically air circulation occurs inside the vehicle, but if it is stationary and the recirculation switch is not pressed then carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide will slowly accumulate inside the vehicle.
The postmortem report indicates the victim died of asphyxiation due to inhaling carbon monoxide that accumulated inside the vehicle. According to air conditioning system maintenance experts, every vehicle has a re-circulation button inside, which has to be turned on to avoid asphyxiation and allow air circulation inside a parked vehicle when the air conditioner is running. If the vehicle is running then automatically air circulation occurs inside the vehicle, but if it is stationary and the recirculation switch is not pressed then carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide will slowly accumulate inside the vehicle.
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