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UK: LPG car explodes after driver lights a cigarette...at 30mph
DailyMail.uk ^
| 31st October 2008
| Chris Brooke
Posted on 10/31/2008 6:58:11 AM PDT by yankeedame
Businessman cheats death after his LPG car explodes in a ball of flames when he lights a cigarette doing 30mph
...Company manager Peter Tidbury, 50, escaped with hardly a scratch after he lit a cigarette and a blast blew out the windows and door panels of his Peugeot 607. The windscreen was blown 50 feet down the road... Peter, 56, suffered minor burns... He said yesterday: 'It just wasn't my day to die.'
The wreckage of Mr Tidbury's LPG car after it exploded
into a fireball
Narrow escape: Mr Tidbury
walked away from the fireball
suffering only minor burns
Mr Tidbury...bought the car privately on October 3 for below £5,000 and had it...checked over twice by a garage before getting behind the wheel.
He said: 'I changed to LPG because it is a lot cheaper and as well as money saving is a lot greener than petrol.... I wanted a reasonably priced luxury motor which had been LPG converted and this seemed to fit the bill....
...Tidbury... viewed a website to see where he could fill up with LPG and found a filling station...where he put in 40 litres of gas.
He said: 'I was told you get a slight smell of gas when you fill up so thought nothing of it...
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bloweduprealgood; hindenburg; lpg
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To: yankeedame
maybe he will give up smoking now.
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posted on
10/31/2008 6:59:55 AM PDT
by
sassy steel magnolia
(USAF life and Navy wife...God Bless the USA!)
To: sassy steel magnolia
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:00:19 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: yankeedame
Not so green now is it? LOL
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:00:23 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Paying taxes for bank bailouts is apparently the patriotic thing to do. [/sarc])
To: yankeedame
He said: 'I was told you get a slight smell of gas when you fill up so thought nothing of it...DUH! That wasn't taco gas either.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:00:35 AM PDT
by
Arrowhead1952
(Don't worry about the polls - GO VOTE!)
To: yankeedame
wow.. a pro-active green car.. lol.
To: yankeedame
He said: 'I was told you get a slight smell of gas when you fill up so thought nothing of it.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:01:30 AM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(LPFOKETT GAHCOEEP-w/o*)
To: sassy steel magnolia
He’ll have to give up smoking -
the UK health system won’t treat smokers.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:02:03 AM PDT
by
MrB
(0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
To: yankeedame; Tijeras_Slim
Let’s see, environmentalist limey is concerned about being “green”, but is still smoking cigarettes, and nearly blows himself to bits in the process?
This story makes my whole day.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:03:43 AM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Eschew exclamatory abuse.)
To: yankeedame
Extra acceleration, free ... The engineering challenges of fueling a motor vehicle, safely carrying that fuel around, are not trivial. Takes a lot of trial and error.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:03:53 AM PDT
by
Tarpon
(Barack Obama will ban all the guns he has the votes for ...)
To: yankeedame
T-Boone call your office!
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:04:09 AM PDT
by
meandog
(Hey Rush: Get it through your head, George W. Bush deserves the blame! Chuck Baldwin 2012!)
To: yankeedame
Proven 100% effective to stop smoking!!
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:04:25 AM PDT
by
TommyDale
(I) (Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: MrB
he definitely needs a new car, too.
To: yankeedame
Obviously cigarettes are “unsafe at any speed.” Ban them!
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:04:42 AM PDT
by
Right Wing Assault
("..this administration is planning a 'Right Wing Assault' on values and ideals.." - John Kerry)
To: Constitution Day
All he needs is a mesquite air freshener for that just grilled aroma.
To: yankeedame
Green, green, it’s green they say
On the far side of the hill
Green, green, getting blown away
To where the gas is green still
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:05:12 AM PDT
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a Constitution...)
To: LRS
Green, green, it’s green they say
On the far side of the hill
Green, green, getting blown away
To where the gas is greenER still
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:05:54 AM PDT
by
LRS
(Just contracts; just laws; just a Constitution...)
To: sassy steel magnolia
Cop: “Do you feel this vehicle is safe for hiway travel?”
Del: “Yes I do. Yes I really do. I believe that. I know it’s not pretty to look at, but it’ll get you where you want to go.”
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:07:05 AM PDT
by
MrB
(0bama supporters: What's the attraction? The Marxism or the Infanticide?)
To: Arrowhead1952
DUH! That wasn't taco gas either. Indeed, but are you certain it twasn't the kidney pie and pint of Guiness he scoffed at Ye Ole Meethaner Pub in Pixley?
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:07:58 AM PDT
by
meandog
(Hey Rush: Get it through your head, George W. Bush deserves the blame! Chuck Baldwin 2012!)
To: yankeedame
Is it exploding car day? Yesterday a car in Cincinnati blew up because an acetylene tank in the trunk was leaking.
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posted on
10/31/2008 7:09:04 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Obama: Spread the Wealth = Marx: From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs)
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