The car fire halted traffic on the road in Chennai.
A luxury BMW car caught fire in the middle of a busy road in Chennai. Videos are circulating on social media of the green-colored car engulfed in smoke and flames coming out of it. According to local media, the driver jumped out of the car in the nick of time and escaped unhurt. The videos also show how a team of the fire brigade arrives and extinguishes the fire. The incident was reported from Chrompet in the capital of Tamil Nadu Asianet news.
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The outlet said the driver stopped the car after noticing the smoke and quickly jumped out of the vehicle. The car was a 3 Series GT.
The driver has been identified as 22-year-old Parthasarthy. He was traveling from Thiruvallikeni to Tindivanam.
Due to the fire in the car, there was a lot of traffic on the road. However, the traffic police immediately took action to clear it up.
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