Car fire: Luxury vehicle bursts into flames on Bhumibol Bridge, family escapes unharmed

[webfact]

Photo courtesy of KhaoSod

 

A prestigious factory owner and his family barely escaped when their luxury vehicle spontaneously caught fire on the Bhumibol Bridge.

 

The car fire incident took place while the man was driving his wife and three children home from a shopping centre. The entire car was burned when the fire took hold, however, incredibly, there were no injuries.

 

Yesterday, an investigator from Phra Pradaeng Police Station, Samut Prakan Province, received a report of a car fire on the Bhumibol Bridge heading towards Suksawat road. The car fire occurred approximately 300 metres before reaching ground level in Bang Phueng Sub-district in Phra Pradaeng District, Samut Prakan Province.

 

Officials from the Lad Luang Municipal Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Office were notified and promptly dispatched a fire engine.

 

Upon arrival, a fierce fire was ravaging a luxurious Toyota Harrier with the registration 1 Kor Chor 861 Bangkok. It took the officials thirty minutes to extinguish the blaze, resulting in complete damage to the vehicle.

 

by Nattapong Westwood

 

Full story: https://thethaiger.com/news/national/luxury-car-bursts-into-flames-on-phumiphon-bridge-family-escapes-unharmed-2

 

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[Henryford]

Was the factory prestigious or the owner?

[2baht]

24 minutes ago, webfact said:

when their luxury vehicle spontaneously caught fire

Oh! The price of luxury!

[Bert got kinky]

 

luxurious Toyota Harrier

 

[stoner]

12 minutes ago, Bert got kinky said:

 

luxurious Toyota Harrier

 

i know right.

 

silly me was thinking bentley or 488. but nooooo. 

[Skipalongcassidy]

EV?

[Grumpy one]

So a rebadged Rav 4 becomes a luxury car

Just like the taxi's had a Limo badge on the back

Time I started calling my 850 Volvo a Luxurious Limo 

[ftpjtm]

29 minutes ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

EV?

No, that's a good ol' petrol fire.

[Skipalongcassidy]

3 minutes ago, ftpjtm said:

No, that's a good ol' petrol fire.

You know that... how?

[falang07]

4 hours ago, ftpjtm said:

No, that's a good ol' petrol fire.

https://www.carscoops.com/2022/09/japans-toyota-harrier-updated-with-plug-in-hybrid-option/

[In the jungle]

5 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

EV?

No.

[BritScot]

1 hour ago, In the jungle said:

No.

See falang07 post and look at the flames and their location. If your unsure what an ev fire looks like type "ev fires" into a search engine. The fire in this vehicle looked very much like an ev battery fire.

[dpcjsr]

We know for certain it was an EV by the nature of the reporting. Cause of fire unmentioned. No negative EV news is allowed e.g. like EV's catching on fire in China and else where. The EV agenda is etched in the stone of the green new deal.  

[sammieuk1]

For sure Kor Chor is no more ????

[gargamon]

Luxury vehicle: any vehicle not manufactured in China 

[Burma Bill]

9 hours ago, webfact said:

A prestigious factory owner

A Senator by any chance???

[KhunLA]

1 hour ago, dpcjsr said:

We know for certain it was an EV by the nature of the reporting. Cause of fire unmentioned. No negative EV news is allowed e.g. like EV's catching on fire in China and else where. The EV agenda is etched in the stone of the green new deal.  

If an EV fire, that would be the headliner, along with 5 repeating threads of the same.  

 

Extinguished in 30 minutes should be another clue ... ????  I don't think Thai firefighters ride around with EV fire blankets.

[matchar]

Looks like a hybrid? So both EV and ICE haters should be happy...

[In the jungle]

13 minutes ago, matchar said:

Looks like a hybrid? So both EV and ICE haters should be happy...

I don't call hybrids EVs.

 

And FWIW I view hybrids as a pointless technological dead end.

[Yorkshire Tea]

17 minutes ago, matchar said:

Looks like a hybrid? So both EV and ICE haters should be happy...

My money is on the EV side causing the fire ????

 

[metisdead]

A troll post has been removed.

[brianthainess]

????Cars are burning,   cars are burning,

????Fire! Fire!

????Pour on water,   poor on water

 Oh <deleted>,   oh <deleted>  <deleted> <deleted> 

[Confuscious]

Not about this incident, but why are EV's allowed to park in covered Shopping Malls and even be plugged into a battery charger.

Vehicles with an LPG/NGV installation are prohibited to enter a covered parking area but EV's which tends to burst on flames at the slightest malfunction can hang with a dozen at a charging spot in a covered mall.

Why?

[DavisH]

8 hours ago, In the jungle said:

No.

It's a plug-in hybrid, so not a fully electric vehicle. If EV if would still be on fire lol

[Henryford]

9 hours ago, Confuscious said:

Not about this incident, but why are EV's allowed to park in covered Shopping Malls and even be plugged into a battery charger.

Vehicles with an LPG/NGV installation are prohibited to enter a covered parking area but EV's which tends to burst on flames at the slightest malfunction can hang with a dozen at a charging spot in a covered mall.

Why?

The Norwegian Ferry Company Havila Kystruten has recently banned all EVs coming aboard their ferries because of the risk of fire. And that's in a country with a very high percentage of EVs on the road.

[KhunLA]

20 minutes ago, Henryford said:

The Norwegian Ferry Company Havila Kystruten has recently banned all EVs coming aboard their ferries because of the risk of fire. And that's in a country with a very high percentage of EVs on the road.

They have 2 ships, and they only hold 5 cars ????

[DrukenMallardy]

I'm surprised it wasn't a BYD, I heard they were quite prone to burning up

[KhunLA]

8 minutes ago, DrukenMallardy said:

I'm surprised it wasn't a BYD, I heard they were quite prone to burning up

It's 'Build' not burn Your Dream car.

[Henryford]

22 hours ago, KhunLA said:

It's 'Build' not burn Your Dream car.

Buy You Die

[sirineou]

"“Despite the focus on EV fires in the news,” the researchers concluded, “they are not inherently more dangerous than gas or hybrid vehicles, although electric fires tend to be more difficult than gas fires to extinguish "

https://www.kbb.com/car-news/study-electric-vehicles-involved-in-fewest-car-fires/