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Originally Posted by wnut
In order to release the canopy all that you would have to do is position an air jack/ram beneath or next to the roll over protection bar and under the canopy.
Powered by its own air bottle and actuated like the on board extinguisher system.
This would be able to push the canopy off the car, right a car that had overturned, or force the car clear of an obstacle that the car was up against, trapping the driver in. A scenario that we have seen from time to time in tyre walls etc.
A device like this would have saved Roger Williamson's life when he was trapped uninjured under his overturned car at Zandvoort.
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Unfortunately, I remember Roger Williamson's accident all too well but that was down to fuel tank/chassis design; his car wouldn't have caught fire in the first place, after hitting the Armco.