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Title: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: mystery-ak on May 14, 2021, 07:30:46 pm
 Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer

By Ben Cost

May 14, 2021 | 12:45pm | Updated

Alcohol caused a car accident — but not in the way you might expect.

A car burst into flames Thursday after a Maryland motorist unwisely used hand sanitizer while smoking. A harrowing video taken from a news chopper shows the vehicle smoldering in a parking lot as firefighters rush to douse the blaze.

“Using hand sanitizer and smoking a cigarette is a bad combo in unventilated areas like a car,” a Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service official told the local ABC affiliate. The crew responded to the freak inferno, which occurred around 5:30 p.m. at the Federal Plaza Shopping Center in Rockland.

According to official reports, the unnamed driver was smoking a cigarette and then started using the germ-killing elixir, which ignited and set the whole car aflame like an impromptu Molotov cocktail.

https://twitter.com/mcfrsPIO/status/1392988883449696260

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Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: mountaineer on May 14, 2021, 08:49:22 pm
He always wanted to be mentioned by the Darwin Awards.
Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: jmyrlefuller on May 14, 2021, 10:11:18 pm
That's odd. Ethanol usually doesn't burn hot enough to ignite anything. (Isopropanol burns even cooler: I remember dousing a piece of paper with it as a kid, lighting it on fire, and the paper being unharmed afterward.)
Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: Slide Rule on May 15, 2021, 12:30:36 pm
There otta be a law prohibiting using hand sanitizer in cars.

We need to do something.

Right away.



Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: Sled Dog on May 16, 2021, 05:30:52 pm
It's a national crisis and Biden should set up a $100 million Commission to investigate.
Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: mountaineer on May 16, 2021, 05:52:33 pm
Quote from: Sled Dog on May 16, 2021, 05:30:52 pm
It's a national crisis and Biden should set up a $100 million Commission to investigate.
Put KommieLa in charge - and nothing ever will be done about it.
Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: Cyber Liberty on May 16, 2021, 06:20:18 pm
Quote from: mountaineer on May 16, 2021, 05:52:33 pm
Put KommieLa in charge - and nothing ever will be done about it.

I wish he'd put her in charge of gun control....
Title: Re: Car bursts into flames when smoking driver uses hand sanitizer
Post by: Smokin Joe on May 16, 2021, 09:24:26 pm
Quote from: Cyber Liberty on May 16, 2021, 06:20:18 pm
I wish he'd put her in charge of gun control....
Be careful what you wish for. She might actually try to accomplish something there.  THe border is part of their platform...Mo'Bama