[LISTEN] Eyewitness account of burning car in Bendor
A neighbourly effort saved the day after a car set alight at a complex in Bendor Drive this afternoon.
POLOKWANE – Teamwork and fast action by neighbours helped a local couple save their vehicle.
One of the residents of a complex in Bendor Drive was preparing to go to work just after 15:00 this afternoon, 17 October when she heard her neighbour call to his wife. When the wife didn’t respond a second and third time, the neighbour decided to go out and see what happened and saw flames coming out of a vehicle standing in the undercover parking area in front of her neighbours flat.
“I heard the man next door calling someone but I didn’t take notice. I heard him again and something told me to go outside to see what’s going on. It was then that I saw the flames. The car was on fire. His wife then came out and I saw him with a hosepipe, I then went over to help.”
The couple told Review that their car stalled and died in front of the gate yesterday afternoon and it refused to move.
“Maybe it is a blessing in disguise because one of us might have been driving when it started to burn. We have bad news in the fact that we lost the car but it could have been much worse and luckily no one was injured,” the woman told Review.
The cause of the fire will still be investigated but it seems to have started under the seat right at the fuel tank.
The Polokwane Fire Department arrived on the scene to make sure the fire was put out. No injuries were reported.
