Minister locked in car misses speech at Thai cb

Thailand's finance minister, Suchart Jaovisidha, was on his way to address central bank officials from around the world when his state-assigned BMW stalled and locked him in the car.

Source: CNETAsia

A high-ranking Thai official was forced to crawl out of the shattered windows of his luxury car following an onboard glitch that sealed all exits.

BMW has told CNETAsia that an electronic fault caused the problem, rather than a system crash of the car's Windows-based central computer, as other reports

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