emergency hammer , także: safety hammer

Police said a "vehicle emergency hammer" is believed to have been used.

A Lifeaxe emergency hammer is a safety device used in vehicles or buildings to break through window glass in an emergency.

Many emergency hammers are attached to a cable or an alarm device to deter theft or misuse.

Officials in Haikou outfitted public buses with 400 emergency hammers, but over half of the hammers were stolen from the buses within three days.

Emergency hammers are also known as bus mallets, dotty hammers, safety mallets, and bus hammers.

The seats have blue cushions and arm rests made of beech wood, the walls are silvery, the luggage section completely white, the windows are equipped with emergency hammers.

A sudden run on emergency hammers to smash car windows ensued, followed just months later with a run on candles amid worries of darkness during an approaching doomsday prediction.

Protective shields in the front of the tram, "catching" people, avoid them getting underneath the tram (see an emergency hammer in picture 4 and a catcher in picture 5).

PRC national law does not require buses to maintain hammers for the purpose of breaking the windows in an emergency, but remains of three emergency hammers were found at the scene.

The reason behind the ban was that in an emergency, the windows might need to serve as an emergency exit and that the advertising would make the window harder to break with the emergency hammer.

The French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, who was present in the train along with his children and partner, suffered a minor hand injury when he attempted to access the emergency hammer for breaking the train window.

After the first series sold out quickly, several others were commissioned, such as Nothammer (emergency hammer), and Pendelverkehr (shuttle service; though Verkehr also means "intercourse" and Pendel also means "pendulum").

Emergency hammers can be purchased by consumers to store in their personal vehicles to provide a means of escape should the doors become unusable, such as in a collision or if the vehicle falls into water and is sinking.