ICE cars are dangerous.

[Doug_G]

Wow, that was some seriously fast thinking on the part of the driver. That could have ended very badly.

 

[Takumi]

Lamborghini Huracan crashes, burns, splits in two in Chicago

 

[wdolson]

Though a Model S caught on fire during a test drive yesterday:
Tesla Model S Catches Fire During Test Drive In France

I wonder if Tesla lost a potential customer? (I also wonder what happened to start the fire.)

 

[pgiralt]

Saw this live today. 4 cars charred on the highway.

Car fire blocks westbound lanes of I-40 in Durham :: WRAL.com

 

[S'toon]

What’s 11,000 Times Dirtier Than a Toilet Seat?

TL DR Gas pump handles.

 

[wdolson]

A friend of mine's husband buys old cars, fixes them up and sells them. He doesn't really need the money anymore as his career is taking off, but he keeps doing it. Recently he bought a car and on the way home it caught fire. He had seconds to get out. He wasn't hurt, but he lost his cell phone and several thousand in cash in the fire. It's turning into an insurance nightmare.

 

[wdolson]

I was out running errands yesterday and the road was wet from snow that wasn't sticking yet. As I made my way towards home from the freeway, I saw a slick of gasoline on the road. It extended all the way from the freeway to a couple of blocks form home where I turned and the slick continued up the hill.

If it wasn't so cold and wet, that car with the leaking gasoline would have been a fire hazard not just to themselves, but other people on the road.

 

[S'toon]

Well, this is a bus, not a car, but...
A double-decker OC Transpo bus that caught fire in rural Ottawa Tuesday morning with 70 to 80 passengers on board was performing sluggishly just before the blaze, and had been involved in a crash in 2013.

The fire happened on Piperville Road, between Anderson Road and Farmers Way in southeast Ottawa, at about 6:50 a.m. ET.
The bus was servicing Route 222, heading east along Piperville from the community of Vars to downtown Ottawa.

While driving the route the bus operator noticed the bus was "sluggish," and called OC Transpo's transit control centre to report it, according to Troy Charter, OC Transpo's director of transit operations.

The driver was told to pull over in a safe area and check it out, but saw nothing when he walked around the bus, Charter said at a news conference Tuesday afternoon.

After getting back on the bus, everyone heard a loud "bang, or a pop," Charter said, followed by the appearance of smoke and flames.

Everyone made it out safely.

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Full article, video at:
OC Transpo bus that caught fire was 'sluggish' before blaze started

 

[Anthony A Bobo]

Saw this live today. 4 cars charred on the highway.

Car fire blocks westbound lanes of I-40 in Durham :: WRAL.com

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the condition of the car seems to be very terrible

 

[SwedishAdvocate]

Audi A7 test mule goes up in flames in Austria | Autoblog.com

Whoopsie...

 

[wdolson]

Audi A7 test mule goes up in flames in Austria | Autoblog.com

Whoopsie...

When I saw a new post in this thread I was wondering if it was about this story. I just saw the same story on carscoops.

 

[Pilot_51]

A local Chevy dealer (right next door to where my dad takes his Ford C-Max Energi for service, which I've driven him to/from) had a huge fire in its service center on Wednesday, caused by spilled gasoline and a spark from a floor scrubber. It appears the entire service section of the building will need to be rebuilt. Of course, this wouldn't have happened if all the cars they serviced were BEVs.

Video shows how massive fire started at Buff Whelan Chevrolet in Sterling Heights
AERIAL VIDEO: Buff Whelan Chevrolet dealership fire aftermath

 

[tinm]

What’s 11,000 Times Dirtier Than a Toilet Seat?

TL DR Gas pump handles.

One can only assume Supercharger charge plugs aren't squeaky clean either. #HandWipesFTW

 

[Takumi]

One can only assume Supercharger charge plugs aren't squeaky clean either. #HandWipesFTW

If it's exposed to the sun, then it's cleaner.

 

[nwdiver]

Carbon Monoxide is causing problems with police cars. Ford blames modifications.

 

[S'toon]

OK. Not so much an ICE cars are dangerous post, even though the car did burn. More of a "This guy is a complete and utter idiot" post.

LONDON -- A British driver has survived a major crash in his Ferrari, an hour after he bought it. Local police called it a "miracle escape," but the car was not so lucky.

South Yorkshire Police posted Twitter photos of the smoking, wrecked car, saying it "went airborne (and) burst into flames" beside a highway in northern England.

The Ferrari 430 Scuderia, worth about 200,000 pounds ($260,000) new, ended up a burning heap in a field.

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Full article at:
British driver totals Ferrari an hour after purchase

 

[wdolson]

OK. Not so much an ICE cars are dangerous post, even though the car did burn. More of a "This guy is a complete and utter idiot" post.

Full article at:
British driver totals Ferrari an hour after purchase

Someone didn't even get his Model S off Tesla property before crashing
Tesla Buyer Takes Delivery, Immediately Crashes Model S

No fire though.

 

[S'toon]

Someone didn't even get his Model S off Tesla property before crashing
Tesla Buyer Takes Delivery, Immediately Crashes Model S

No fire though.

You didn't read the update. Turns out it wasn't a brand new car. Woman hit the accellerator instead of the brake going to Supercharger.

 

[wdolson]

You didn't read the update. Turns out it wasn't a brand new car. Woman hit the accellerator instead of the brake going to Supercharger.

My bad.

 

[SMAlset]

Carbon Monoxide is causing problems with police cars. Ford blames modifications.

Saw a report on this a few days ago in our area. They had a dashcam video I think it was of a car veering across lanes on their side of the highway, crossing the median area, crossing over all lanes in the opposite direction of the divided highway and going off road at a good speed crashing at that point. Pretty scary to watch. Hope they figure out the cause.