Car audio man burnt to death in workshop accident in Chonburi

[webfact]

Car audio man burnt to death in workshop accident in Chonburi

 

Picture: Daily News

 

The owner of a car audio business called Folk in Soi Merry, Muang Chonburi, burned to death inside a pick-up. 

 

He had been working on installing an audio system for a customer. 

 

Sitthichai, 34, was incinerated beyond all recognition inside the Chevy Colorado. 

 

A neighboring mechanic called Khamrit had seen him go into the workshop before hearing an explosion. He tried to rescue Sitthichai but the doors were locked. 

 

He tried to use a hammer to break the windows but the speed with which the flames rose proved to be too much. 

 

He suspected that the leads to a dry battery had caused the explosion and fire. 

 

Muang Chonburi police are investigating. 

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[jacko45k]

Horrific....

[KannikaP]

13 minutes ago, webfact said:

He suspected that the leads to a dry battery had caused the explosion and fire. 

That's a new one! There must have been some fuel leakage to be ignited. 

[jacko45k]

3 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

That's a new one! There must have been some fuel leakage to be ignited. 

It sounds like he was locked in the cab.... wasn't another gas conversion was it? 

[ThailandRyan]

Did he spontaneously combust?  Very few cases but it does happen.  Will be interesting to see what they determine as the cause of the fire, either him or a short in the vehicle wiring ignited.  Either way RIP sir, hopefully you are reincarnated to a better life.

[jaiyen]

Very few people know that the stems on the headrest are designed to be capable of smashing the windows. However, you need to tip the seat back in order to remove the headrest. I have never known any car company inform buyers about this. 

 

[LennyW]

1 minute ago, jaiyen said:

Very few people know that the stems on the headrest are designed to be capable of smashing the windows. However, you need to tip the seat back in order to remove the headrest. I have never known any car company inform buyers about this. 

 

Correct! When you pull them out they have a sharp point that can break the glass.

[HashBrownHarry]

49 minutes ago, LennyW said:

Correct! When you pull them out they have a sharp point that can break the glass.

Bit of a <deleted> about when you're burning to death to remove a headrest.....

 

Alright if the lock has failed or something..

[Leaver]

1 hour ago, jaiyen said:

Very few people know that the stems on the headrest are designed to be capable of smashing the windows. However, you need to tip the seat back in order to remove the headrest. I have never known any car company inform buyers about this. 

 

 

A key will do the same, if protruding from a clenched fist.  

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Did he spontaneously combust?  Very few cases but it does happen.  Will be interesting to see what they determine as the cause of the fire, either him or a short in the vehicle wiring ignited.  Either way RIP sir, hopefully you are reincarnated to a better life.

 

They might not bother investigating. In Thailand, what's done is done. Discovering the cause benefits no-one at all. The idea that people might learn from what went wrong would never occur to them. That is Stage 2 thinking, which Thais do not progress to much of the time.

[spiekerjozef]

12V explosion?

[Leaver]

8 minutes ago, Bangkok Barry said:

 

They might not bother investigating. In Thailand, what's done is done. Discovering the cause benefits no-one at all. The idea that people might learn from what went wrong would never occur to them. That is Stage 2 thinking, which Thais do not progress to much of the time.

 

Would investigating a potential murder be stage 2?  

[rebo]

7 hours ago, KannikaP said:

That's a new one! There must have been some fuel leakage to be ignited. 

Not at all.

https://www.google.co.th/search?q=youtube+lithium+battery+exploding&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de-th&client=safari

[Moonlover]

5 hours ago, jaiyen said:

Very few people know that the stems on the headrest are designed to be capable of smashing the windows. However, you need to tip the seat back in order to remove the headrest. I have never known any car company inform buyers about this. 

 

That sounds like a bit of an urban myth to me. If they were so designed, I'm sure that the auto world would have let us all know about it.

 

I wonder how many people have actually tried to remove a head restraint. (that's the correct name BTW) They can be very stubborn. Not the sort of thing one would want to be doing in a stressed out situation.

 

I call B/S on that one.

 

[JeffersLos]

6 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

I wonder how many people have actually tried to remove a head restraint. (that's the correct name BTW) They can be very stubborn. Not the sort of thing one would want to be doing in a stressed out situation.

 

Mine are always completely jammed until I have my face 6 inches above it.

[dabhand]

11 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

That sounds like a bit of an urban myth to me. If they were so designed, I'm sure that the auto world would have let us all know about it.

 

I wonder how many people have actually tried to remove a head restraint. (that's the correct name BTW) They can be very stubborn. Not the sort of thing one would want to be doing in a stressed out situation.

 

I call B/S on that one.

 

Looks like you called it right.

 

https://carseatblog.com/38120/mythbusters-vehicle-headrests-are-meant-to-break-vehicle-windows/

 

 

[Guderian]

Something suspicious here for sure, normally this would be an open-and-closed case of suicide for the cops! 

[impulse]

Wonder if he owed a loan shark any money, or was carrying on with the wrong woman.

 

It may be an accident, pure and simple.  But I hope they at least investigate a little bit.

 

[jacko45k]

9 hours ago, rebo said:

Not at all.

https://www.google.co.th/search?q=youtube+lithium+battery+exploding&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de-th&client=safari

They fit lithium batteries to Chevy Colorados now?

[brianthainess]

14 hours ago, spiekerjozef said:

12V explosion?

Battery gases will explode given a spark, not sure what they mean by dry battery though.

[Thingamabob]

I suspect a faulty lpg conversion.

[Moonlover]

1 hour ago, brianthainess said:

Battery gases will explode given a spark, not sure what they mean by dry battery though.

A 'dry battery' is a term I've heard for describing a modern low maintenance battery, which has a gel electrolyte rather than the old sulphuric acid/water type.

 

I would still suspect that the explosion somehow centered around the battery. The engineer was installing a sound system and as such he would be disturbing the wiring. He could have created a short circuit which overheated the the wiring and the battery.

[jacko45k]

42 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

He could have created a short circuit which overheated the the wiring and the battery.

Sounds unlikely.... there are fuses designed to open before wiring is compromised, batteries can deliver a lot of current but you don't hear of them exploding. One has to suspect fuel was involved... or a container of it or gas.

[Moonlover]

4 hours ago, jacko45k said:

Sounds unlikely.... there are fuses designed to open before wiring is compromised, batteries can deliver a lot of current but you don't hear of them exploding. One has to suspect fuel was involved... or a container of it or gas.

A fuel fire or explosion has to have a means of ignition. An electrical spark or fire is the most likely source in a vehicle. And it isn't just cars. Do you remember the battery fires in the Boeing 787?

[brianthainess]

Or the sound system was so darn loud the car exploded.

[jacko45k]

21 minutes ago, Moonlover said:

Do you remember the battery fires in the Boeing 787?

Completely different type of battery, also gave problems in Samsung phones. 

[tinca tinca]

On 1/6/2021 at 1:31 PM, ThailandRyan said:

Did he spontaneously combust?  Very few cases but it does happen.  Will be interesting to see what they determine as the cause of the fire, either him or a short in the vehicle wiring ignited.  Either way RIP sir, hopefully you are reincarnated to a better life.

we will NEVER GET TO KNOW..... WILL WE???

[richard_smith237]

22 hours ago, Moonlover said:

That sounds like a bit of an urban myth to me. If they were so designed, I'm sure that the auto world would have let us all know about it.

 

I wonder how many people have actually tried to remove a head restraint. (that's the correct name BTW) They can be very stubborn. Not the sort of thing one would want to be doing in a stressed out situation.

 

I call B/S on that one.

 

 

Not being aware of something does not make it an urban myth or BS (google it). I knew of this, although not sure how widely known it is as you are correct, car manufactures don’t mention it probably because its not foolproof. IMO that the head restraints can smash a car window is more of a secondary design benefit. 

 

Someone mentioned the ‘key in a clenched fist’ - I’m not sure if that will work. 

 

Agreed - defiantly not thing I’d want do be doing in a stressed out situation while on fire or in submerging car. 

 

 

[DekDaeng]

On 1/6/2021 at 8:36 PM, rebo said:

Not at all.

https://www.google.co.th/search?q=youtube+lithium+battery+exploding&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=de-th&client=safari

lpg?