Pennsylvania Woman Finds Herself Trapped Inside a Car Wash for Nearly an Hour

A Pennsylvania woman found herself trapped at a car wash, suds dripping off her vehicle and her anxiety levels quickly rising. Felicia Sullivan stopped to get her car cleaned in Waynesboro on her way home from work. Midway through the cycle, the system suddenly shut down — and Felicia found herself a prisoner inside the fully automated business, which had no workers on-site, per People.

“I am trapped in the Waynesboro Water Works,” she says in one of the videos she made of her ordeal. “I still have soap and everything all over this freaking car.”

She tried to lift the garage-style exit door, but it refused to budge, and no one responded when she repeatedly pushed the emergency button and called the business numbers.

Felicia, who said she documented the drama in case her vehicle was damaged or she was hurt, inched her car forward and backward hoping to trigger the sensors — with no luck.

After 20 minutes, she began to realize she might be in danger. “This place is filling up with exhaust fumes,” she notes. Desperate, she called the Waynesboro Police Department’s non-emergency line for assistance.

Finally, after having been trapped inside for 57 minutes, she spotted shadows of feet — the car wash owner and a cop had arrived.

Although she wanted nothing more than to get out of there, they stayed with her as she ran her car through a wash cycle to rinse off the dried soap coating her car.

But in the future, “I’ll stick to the outside [car washes] where you spray it yourself!” Felicia vows.