Family exits burning car in time

By The Nation

 

SAMUT SONGKHRAM: -- A car-care businesswoman along with her husband and four children escaped from their sedan after it suddenly caught on fire in Samut Songkhram’s Muang district on Thursday night.
 

A 9pm report of a car fire sent police and rescue workers to the scene on the Rama II Road's 69th kilometre marker in Tambon Bang Khan Taek. It took firefighters 30 minutes to put out the fire that consumed the sedan, which was outfitted with an LPG tank. 

 

Sasithorn Wansri, 38, said she was driving on their way back from visiting her ailing mother at Ratchaburi Hospital when she smelled something burning. After the odour became stronger, Sasithorn pulled over and discovered smoke coming out of the car's hood. She grabbed her one-year-old son and her four-year-old daughter while her husband got the other two daughters out of the car.

 

They also managed to remove belongings before the flames spread to the car engine. 

 

Sasithorn said she suspects the fire was caused by overheating that ruptured the old gasoline hose. The leaking gasoline then caught fire, she said. Sasithorn said she fitted the car with an LPG tank five years ago, but did not have time to submit it for maintenance checking.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30322074

 

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17 hours ago, webfact said:

five years ago, but did not have time to submit it for maintenance checking.

.... and absolutely no thought of preventative maintenance!!!!

The number of vehicles fitted with LPG here is incredible....even honda jazz and yaris have gas installed.....and when gasoline prices here are very cheap, makes me wonder why.

And again...maintainance isn't in the Thai vocabulary...

29 minutes ago, ChrisY1 said:

The number of vehicles fitted with LPG here is incredible....even honda jazz and yaris have gas installed.....and when gasoline prices here are very cheap, makes me wonder why.

And again...maintainance isn't in the Thai vocabulary...

LPG is more environmentally friendly?   

Edited July 29, 20178 yr by VocalNeal

56 minutes ago, wirat69 said:

.... and absolutely no thought of preventative maintenance!!!!

Huh? "Preventative Maintenance"? That's about as foreign a concept as "cause and effect". Which seems unbelievable, since the philosophy of Buddhism is based on that concept. 

 

In the LOS, Mai Pen Rai rules.

Lmao.... "a car care businesswoman" (OP... line one!).... fail! ????