20211101 Chennai: Two cars catch fire on GST Road, traffic comes to standstill
India Nov 01 2021 “Automobile & Railway”
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Chennai: Two cars catch fire on GST Road, traffic comes to standstill
Updated: 2021-11-01
The two accidents happened within three hours, police said
CHENNAI: Two cars went up in flames on GST Road on Saturday night in different incidents.
No casualty was reported in the incidents, and all the passengers escaped unhurt. The two accidents happened within three hours, police said.
In the first incident on GST Road in Perungalathur around 9.30pm, a car of a driving school went up in flames. Balaji, who was driving home from Sanatorium to Otteri Vandalur, stopped the car and stepped out even as the car went up in flames.
The traffic police who witnessed the accident tried to douse the flames, but the entire vehicle was engulfed in fire by then.
This created a huge traffic jam on the busy GST Road. Fire tenders were eventually brought in to douse the flames. Police suspect a leak in the car battery to have caused the fire.
In the second incident, three people, including two software professionals, managed to escape unhurt when the car in which they were travelling went up in flames on Tambaram flyover on GST Road.
Vishnu was driving the car from the OMR office of the two techies to drop them at their house after night shift, when the incident happened. At 12.30am, the driver noticed a fire at the front portion of the car and alerted the techies. All the three rushed out of the car on the flyover before the entire car got engulfed in flames.
They informed the Tambaram fire services, who rushed to the spot and doused the flames. Battery short circuit could be behind the second incident too, police said.
Web Source: The Times of India