Let's hope he had insurance! Burnt out Jaguar on the expressway

[webfact]

Picture: Siam Rath

 

Highway Police 1 were called after a Jaguar XJL burst into flames on the expressway in Bangkok.

 

It was just 1 km from the Din Daeng toll plaza.

 

Picture: Siam Rath

The driver reported smelling diesel then the fire took hold in the engine compartment.

 

It had a red plate, indicating perhaps that it was brand new.

 

The fire services had the blaze under control in 5 minutes, reported Siam Rath who had pictures of the complete destruction of the luxury vehicle.

 

The driver said they needed to check up on the insurance and would be talking to police next day. 

 

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[Henk Langeweg]

Good that they wore no mask ..

[kotsak]

53 minutes ago, webfact said:

It had a red plate, indicating perhaps that it was brand new.

Is the author fresh off the boat? The are thousands of luxury cars here running around using red plates for ages.. 

[Excel]

Diesel does not burn that easily. And in answer to @kotsak, the XJL was discontinued in 2019 so he was quite right in his statement.

[hotchilli]

Wow plastic burns so quickly, not much left of a so-called luxury car that should technically be cheap as chips.

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/21/2022 at 12:02 PM, webfact said:

It had a red plate, indicating perhaps that it was brand new.

Not produced since 2019.   The driver may well have insurance problems!...

"The driver said they needed to check up on the insurance".

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/21/2022 at 12:49 PM, Henk Langeweg said:

Good that they wore no mask ..

Who?

[Henk Langeweg]

6 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Who?

The doctor who smelled the diesel ...

[Liverpool Lou]

On 2/23/2022 at 8:51 PM, Henk Langeweg said:

On 2/23/2022 at 2:04 PM, Liverpool Lou said:

Who?

The doctor who smelled the diesel ...

Why would you have any comment about a person in his own car not wearing a mask?   What's the relevance?

[Henk Langeweg]

4 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Why would you have any comment about a person in his own car not wearing a mask?   What's the relevance?

The article said they smelled diesel. So ... And I believe the rule here in TH is that you have to wear a mask when with 1+ ppl in the car ... So ... *Sigh*

 

ps. Sometimes ppl need only a half word to understand, sometimes not ...

 

Edited February 25, 2022 by Henk Langeweg

[Liverpool Lou]

16 hours ago, Henk Langeweg said:

21 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

Why would you have any comment about a person in his own car not wearing a mask?   What's the relevance?

The article said they smelled diesel. 

No, it did not.  It reported that the driver smelled diesel, not "they".  From the link...

"From the preliminary investigation, it was revealed that while the driver drove up on the Din Daeng Expressway Smell the diesel fuel into the cabin Before a fire broke out in the engine room by the driver to say that The said vehicle was used by one person only".

 

Regardless, do you really think that only a person without a mask could smell leaking diesel?

Edited February 26, 2022 by Liverpool Lou

[Henk Langeweg]

Mu comment was a mixture of naming the facts and making a kind of joke of it.

I read somewhere there were 4 people in the car.