The driver of a Mercedes has been charged right after an try to carry out burnouts ended with his luxury automobile bursting into flames. The 25-year-old from Australia was revving his Mercedes Benz in front of a crowd of onlookers when smoke started to billow from the exhaust, sending him and his co-passenger into a panic as they scrambled to exit the automobile.
Luckily, the two managed to escape the vehicle with no any injuries, reports the Daily Mail.
Their Mercedes-AMG C63 Coupe wasn’t as fortunate. Footage that has gone viral on social media shows the vehicle catching fire in front of dozens of bystanders watching in shock. The luxury vehicle reportedly charges a whopping $1,70,000 (around Rs 1.2 crore).
A burnout is the practice of maintaining a automobile stationary and spinning its wheels. According to Car Advice, the burnout try almost certainly ended in disaster due to a suspected overheating transmission.
Emergency crews have been named to Chester Hill, in Sydney’s western suburbs, on Sunday, as the vehicle went up in flames.
“A man has been charged after his luxury car was destroyed by fire in a Chester Hill street at the weekend,” police revealed in a Facebook post.
The unnamed driver initially attempted to lie his way out of the predicament, saying that his vehicle had caught fire although he was driving down the road. He may possibly have gotten away with it also, had the fire not scorched the road also.
Unfortunately for him, there have been dozens of eyewitnesses and as police investigated additional, they realised that the Mercedes had caught fire mainly because of a burnout gone incorrect.
The man has now been charged with harmful and negligent driving and asked to seem in a regional court.