Ford Figo catches fire in parking lot

Bystanders managed to open the bonnet and extinguished the flames.

Ford Figo on fire.

The unoccupied Ford Figo was parked in the parking lot when a bystander, Ms Serah Venn, parked next to it Mpumalanga, Lowvelder reports.

According to Venn, she first noticed something was wrong when she smelled, “Something weird, like rubber burning,” when her daughter opened her car’s window.

Bystanders were able to open the car and extinguish the fire before the car burnt out.

This was then that she noticed smoke was appearing from under the Ford Figo’s bonnet, and swiftly parked further away.

According to Venn quite few bystanders gathered and on investigation found that the Figo was not locked. They then managed to open the bonnet and extinguish the flames.