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enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:42 am

Anyone else prepared to put a fiver on it being an electric car that started the fire in the car park?

TitanTim · Post by **TitanTim** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:59 am

That was my initial thought but looking at the photos looks to have been a pretty intense fire and saying the building has partially collapsed

Guessing its going to be hard to find the cause unless any CCTV survives. They have said its accidental though.

Great end to your holiday

Tim.

smorris_12 · Post by **smorris_12** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:22 am

Funnily enough my first thought was an EV.

The CCTV will be recorded on a server in a completely different building so, assuming there was a camera in the right spot (and the system was actually working - a relative rarity for these sort of things), we should find out.

davidprice · Post by **davidprice** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:29 am

The car parks will be extremely well covered by CCTV so it won’t be difficult to find out the cause of the fire

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:37 am

enuff_zed wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 8:42 am Anyone else prepared to put a fiver on it being an electric car that started the fire in the car park?

We can add to that as it being a Chinese EV? Like the runaway "MG" models

2k35is · Post by **2k35is** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:46 am

Video of car in flamed her
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... oment.html
I cant tell if its electric or not

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:47 am

2k35is wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:46 am Video of car in flamed her
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... oment.html
I cant tell if its electric or not

Can't tell, but it doesn't look like it was parked? Driving in or out?

smorris_12 · Post by **smorris_12** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:53 am

Is that a Discovery Sport (used to be the Freelander sized thing rather than a full sized Disco) in the picture?

enuff_zed wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:47 am Can't tell, but it doesn't look like it was parked? Driving in or out?

Well spotted; I'd taken the beam pattern as the wall. Yes, deffo was on the move.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:53 am

Yep, RR broken down even worse than usual

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:54 am

That will be a nice claim on their insurance

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:58 am

Fire likely started in a diesel car - fire chief

Fire chief Andy Hopkinson says it is thought the fire started with a diesel car, and then spread through the car park.

pvr · Post by **pvr** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:59 am

I will have that fiver now then enuff_zed

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:59 am

Insurance nightmare!
Every car insurance will try to claim off the building insurer.
The building insurer will try to claim off the initial car that caused it.

Then of course, all the argumdents start about whether the car is insured at all? Is it a public road? Etc, etc.

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:00 am

pvr wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:59 am I will have that fiver now then enuff_zed

I didn't bet! I merely asked if any of you lot would?

enuff_zed · Post by **enuff_zed** » Wed Oct 11, 2023 10:01 am

pvr wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:58 am Fire likely started in a diesel car - fire chief

Well that would have been third on my list after electric and petrol.
Very odd.

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