'I was just driving, moments later my car is on fire.'
A mother is grateful that her children were not in the car with her when it went up in flames on Christian de Wet Road in Honeydew, Johannesburg, on Tuesday. The car malfunctioned and spontaneously combusted during the morning commute.A mother of two toddlers was driving to work when her Ford Fiesta"randomly stopped working" and caught fire in the middle of a busy Honeydew road on Tuesday."This guy came rushing up and urged me to get out of the vehicle.
She had time only to grab her handbag, cellphone and a work jacket before watching her car go up in flames."It still feels like I am dreaming, I mean I was just driving, moments later my car is on fire. I am glad I made it out alive. It hurts to think that I too could have made the statistics ... I actually don't want to even think about it," Khanye said.
A police officer inspects the Ford after it caught fire on a Honeydew, Johannesburg, road June 4 2019Khanye said her daily routine included taking her two children to daycare and then reporting for work, but she had spontaneously decided not to take the toddlers to daycare on Tuesday. "It was just one of those days. I felt quite down and didn't feel like anything, I did not even apply make-up. Even with the kids, I just thought I won't take them with me, but leave them with my mother," she said. "As confused as I was when the car started burning, how was I going take my kids out ..." she said.
A motorist who witnessed the incident said:"When a person is experiencing problems, they normally hit the indicators to alert everybody else, but this Ford mysteriously stopped. As we were trying to get a sense of what was happening, it just blew."
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