Yulia Sharko was trying to get her daughter out of her car when the window closed on her neck (Picture: East2West News)

A mother died on her 21st birthday when she reached into her car as her daughter pressed the button to close the electric windows.

Yulia Sharko was trying to get her little girl, two, out of the vehicle through the half-opened passenger window.

But she ended up being strangled as it closed on her.

Her husband Artur found her unconscious, hanging from the BMW and smashed the window to try and help her in the Russian village of Staroe Selo.


He called emergency services and they took her to a nearby hospital where she died eight days later after suffering asphyxia that caused brain damage.

Yulia died eight days after being rushed to hospital following the accident (Picture: East2West News)

Her husband found her struggling to breathe and still trapped in the car’s window (Picture: East2West News)

Investigator Dmitry Ivanyuk said: ‘The young woman was with her family at a friend’s house in the village of Staroe Selo.



‘On August 31 around 4.30pm her husband found her unconscious, with her neck jammed by the window of the front left door of their family car.’

The mother was taken to Brest regional hospital ‘in a grave condition with signs of mechanical asphyxia and traumas’, he said.

The investigative committee is examining the circumstances of the young woman’s death.

The couple had two children, Margarita, four, and Arianna, two.

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