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Car becomes toast on the Expressway

By adamg on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 4:58pm
Car in flames on I-93 in Boston

Nate Morrow captured a self-immolating car on I-93 south, just past the tunnel, around 4:15 p.m.

Caroline Cook watched the car burn from the Whole Foods parking lot:

Car on fire on I-93
Neighborhoods: 
South End
Topics: 
Driving
Fire
Free tagging: 
I-93
Southeast Expressway


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Comments

By Rob on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 5:25pm.

Is this Friday afternoon's car fire southbound near Whole Foods, or an entirely different weenie roast southbound near Whole Foods?

By adamg on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 5:41pm.

But yes, this is an all new car roast.

By mplo on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 5:27pm.

Here's hoping that the driver/passenter(s) of the immolated car got away safely and in one piece!

By adamg on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 5:40pm.

Nate Morrow reports the driver got out OK, was standing away from the car as firefighters doused the flames:

Aftermath of Expressway car fire

By mplo on Sat, 06/11/2016 - 5:41pm.

Thanks for the heads-up, Adam. Glad that the driver is okay.

By anon on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 5:57pm.

Or does it seem like this happens much too often? I think this is the third flaming car I'm aware of in the past 7-10 days, and honestly, I don't recall this happening much in my youth, but in the past ten years it has become kind of ... common. Is there some Tocata like thing yet to be revealed, some key electronic component that is making this occur? Just wondering.

By adamg on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 7:49pm.

Or, at least, more people tagging me with photos on Twitter, same as with Storrowed trucks. :-).

By Rob on Sun, 06/12/2016 - 11:34pm.

UHub is a conscientious, modern journalistic endeavor. UHub uses only organic, free-range, sustainably-harvested, non-GMO, fair-trade images of burning vehicles...

...unlike old-school media, which engineered their images of burning vehicles (,,,cough...DatelineNBC...cough...):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtpMzGN9uWc