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[The Dogmother]

.. no, not mine. Thankfully

 

On Sunday as we drove back from a family visit in London, we dropped Phil back at Lucknor and as we drove north of Junction 10 on the M40, I saw a light plume of smoke go up. It looked to be off to one side of the motorway, but as we got closer, it got darker and turned out to be a car on fire in the middle of the southbound carriageway. The flames were very hot as we drove past, and Rosie got some pictures which turned out better than expected. They must have had some warning about the fire as the contents of the vehicle were up at the top of the embankment; a truck driver had stopped the traffic on that side, but the emergency services hadn't arrived just yet.

 

 

 

 

Poor people

[Ain't Nobody Here]

Thank goodness they had some warning .

 

Great photos from Rosie .

[ClaireG]

how scary.

[Chucky Mama]

Scary stuff but cracking photos.

[Cinnamon]

Brian's van caught fire once .....right outside a Fire Station, which was lucky!

 

Great photos,glad they escaped unharmed.

[Redwing]

Our fire extinguisher engineers often stop and help when they see situations like this - obviously this one was too far gone for help but they often put them out if they catch them early enough and we get nice letters from the public

 

That looks particularly fierce Claret and very scary for the owners of the car

[The Dogmother]

It looked like it was a relatively new car too.

 

No doubt by the time the services turned up it would have been burned down to the tarmac!

 

I always carry a first aid kit, and will stop at accidents if the ambulance hasn't turned up, but there was not stopping in that amount of traffic and they all seemed to be OK.

[Lewis]

At least they got out in time + no-one was hurt!

[Tiggy]

gosh that looks scary, cracking photos

[Seagazer]

Thank goodness they had got out, great photos though.

[Happy chickens!]

Great photos - I'm surprised all the traffic hadn't ground to a halt to look!

[The Dogmother]

Our side (northbound) was going very slowly, but the southbound had stopped (obviously) and the tailback was already sizeable.

[Space Chick]

Scary stuff but cracking photos.

 

Couldn't have put it better myself.

 

Thank goodness they got out OK

[Couperwife]

wow

 

scary

 

they must have had plenty of warning to get everything out - thank goodness

 

cthy

x

[Charlottechicken]

Oh my word, can you imagine the shock! What a shame.

 

The flames were very hot as we drove past, and Rosie got some pictures which turned out better than expected.

 

Oh ye of little faith Clare She's David Bailey mk2

[The Dogmother]

She obviously takes far better photos from a moving car than I do Her usual offerings tend to have crucial bits like head missing

[ubereglu]

That looks really scary. I wondered what caused the fire though?

[Geoid]

Most likely started as an engine fire that spread.

[ubereglu]

On the subject of car fires one went up at about 4am in the morning yesterday, it was parked in co-op car park and Dad got woken up by al the emergency vehicles.

[Chook n Boo Mum]

We saw that too Claret, though it was a darned sight further on than that by the time we passed it...........complete mangled shell, smouldering & surrounded by fire engines & police cars......and how many miles of tailback

 

I was driving so didn't take as much notice as I might have from the passenger seat

 

Sha x

[Cooks]

totally scarey isn't it! Rosie can take my photos anytime!

[Chucky1]

Yes cracking photos. Glad everyone got out OK