A car fire slowed traffic on Highway 101 southbound near Gaviota on Wednesday morning.
Around 7:30 a.m. near the Gaviota Tunnel and the Highway 1 interchange, a gray sedan became fully engulfed in flames.
The vehicle was located in the left shoulder of the roadway with a lot of smoke crossing over into both directions of the highway.
A fire engine was on the scene to extinguish the fire.
Traffic was slow for about an hour in the area.
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I was there hoping no one was hurt but no information
Vehicle model information anyone?
It’s a Maserati Ghibli.
Electric car?
Doesn’t look like any I’m familiar with, although there are a lot more of them than there used to be. That looks like a gasoline fire, though.
In any given car fire, the odds are that it’s a gasoline fire, by a huge margin, even adjusting for percentage of cars on the road.
@ ANONYMOUS- You’re wrong- Most vehicle fires are started by faulty electronics / electrical… You’ve seen too many “Hollywood” movies of cars exploding… LOL!!!
People who get told what to think and say by social media aren’t exactly reliable sources. Perhaps you should look into the statistics at the NTSB.
Even the simplest search for stats reveals:
Fires per 100K vehicles:
Hybrids 3474.5
Gasoline 1529.9
Battery Electric 25.1
But, enjoy your myths while you can.
COAST – again, you’re wrong. Fuel leaks, closely followed by electronics, are commonly and in some sources equally cited as the cause of most car fires. While electronics are A leading cause, to say they cause the “most vehicle fires” is, once again and per usual for you, factually incorrect.
https://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-driving-safety/accidents-hazardous-conditions/10-causes-of-car-fires.htm
https://www.sovereigninsurance.ca/advice-and-tools/managing-risk/vehicle-fires-how-they-start-spread-and-how-to-prevent-them
https://www.consumernotice.org/personal-injury/vehicle-safety/highway-vehicle-fires/
Accordinĵ Insulation around electrical wiring (29 percent) and flammable liquids in the engine
area (18 percent) were the most common items first ignited in highway vehicle firesg to FEMA from 2014-2016; “
Argle bargle garble.
The primary cause of vehicle fires is leaking fuel lines.
What does FEMA have to do with vehicle fires, anyway?
“and flammable liquids in the engine” – meaning, electrical issues aren’t THE leading cause, they are A leading cause, meaning “Most vehicle fires are started by faulty electronics / electrical” is….. drumroll…. WRONG.
Also, that was 10 years ago, so…….
I misread your jumbled quote, so I see what you are getting at now.
BUT….. you failed to include this sentences that came RIGHT BEFORE the one you cited….
“Sixty-two percent of highway vehicle fires and 36 percent of fatal highway vehicle fires originated in the engine, running gear or wheel area of the vehicle. ĵ Mechanical failure was the leading factor contributing to the ignition of highway vehicle fires (45 percent).”
Look, a simple overstatement or faulty source for a comment like yours would be excusable had ANYONE else written it. But, you, with your non stop insistence on factually INCORRECT claims and general attitude towards others here, YOU deserve a little more scrutiny and adherence to facts.
Here’s the citation /link for Coastwatch’s garbled quote:
https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v19i2.pdf
#1 Ancient data
#2 Highways only
#3 No mention of electric powered vehicles
Obviously, CW had to look far and wide to cherry pick something he could misinterpret for us.
What about brakes causing a fire?
Ford vs. Ferrari.
That pass is a place to really be careful.
Careful what you say about the 154, we have a very sensitive former engineer here who will hold the grudge for years if you even suggest that road is anymore dangerous than a straight 4 mile stretch of the 101!
Its not the Road that is dangerous it’s the Driver. Some have zero understanding of the physics that are at play when maneuvering a 4000-pound machine.
When more accidents happen on a certain stretch of road with sharp curves, narrow shoulders, steep grades, short on-ramps, or other less common characteristics than on other nearby straight sections of that road, what would you call that?
Of COURSE it’s always the driver, but….. aren’t certain stretches of road more precarious than others? Yes.
Put another way, if a driver must exercise more caution, focus, awareness, etc, in a certain stretch, what does that mean?
It’s a Maserati Ghibli for anyone wondering.