A mother said her family was “lucky to have got out safely” after their parked electric car exploded and engulfed their house in flames. BBC News has more.
Georgina Bayliss from Spratton, Northamptonshire, said their Mercedes EQA had been parked outside their house for several hours before the explosion.
She said her younger son had seen flames around the front of the house and thought the rest of the family and their five dogs were still inside.
Mercedes-Benz U.K. said it was carrying out an investigation.
Mrs Bayliss’s husband Scott, 47, explained how his eldest son, James, 17, raised the alarm at 9:15pm after he heard a loud bang and thought it was fireworks.
“The pace and ferocity at which the fire took hold and engulfed the entire car and pretty much the entire front of our house was scary beyond belief,” he said. …
Mr. Bayliss said: “This is a pretty calamitous car failure, in my view, of a prestigious brand and our concern is this could happen again and people could ultimately lose their lives.”
Firefighters arrived and told the family they had been minutes away from losing their home.
The family said the car was only two years old and had not shown any sign of a fault.
It was parked on the drive at 11:30am on the day of the explosion three weeks ago and had not been on charge.
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