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- Number of cars are catching fire all of a sudden on roads. This thread is for discussion on the causes and methods of prevention.
This is a picture that was published today in our local paper:
This is not the first time a car has gone up in flames. A number of cases have been reported where cars moving on roads have, all of a sudden, blazed up. In a significant number of such cases, the people inside breathed their last as they couldn't escape.
There was no collision. The cars are from different companies, so you can't blame any single company to have produced defective models. All the owners/their close relatives have added that the cars were regularly serviced by authorised personnel. And there is a equal spread between petrol and diesel variants.
The question that arises is, what can cause these flames? In most cases, the car has been burnt so very badly that forensic studies have been unable to recover any good evidence that might indicate the cause of the fire. Short circuit? Engine failure (thereby spreading of the fire from engine cylinders to fuel tank)? From air-conditioning system? What are your guesses?
Of course, once we agree upon some possible causes we can discuss how to prevent such fires.
This is not the first time a car has gone up in flames. A number of cases have been reported where cars moving on roads have, all of a sudden, blazed up. In a significant number of such cases, the people inside breathed their last as they couldn't escape.
There was no collision. The cars are from different companies, so you can't blame any single company to have produced defective models. All the owners/their close relatives have added that the cars were regularly serviced by authorised personnel. And there is a equal spread between petrol and diesel variants.
The question that arises is, what can cause these flames? In most cases, the car has been burnt so very badly that forensic studies have been unable to recover any good evidence that might indicate the cause of the fire. Short circuit? Engine failure (thereby spreading of the fire from engine cylinders to fuel tank)? From air-conditioning system? What are your guesses?
Of course, once we agree upon some possible causes we can discuss how to prevent such fires.