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Learner’s costly lesson as car goes up in flames
Tuesday, 7th February, 2012
DESTROYED: A 19-year-old learner driver bogged his father’s car which then caught fire.
A learner driver would have had some explaining to do after taking his father’s car for a spin only to watch in horror as it was destroyed by fire.
The 19-year-old local’s misadventure began when he decided to take his father’s Mitsubishi wagon for a drive around South Broken Hill around midday yesterday.
According to police the teenager bogged the vehicle but, as he attempted to drive the wagon out, heat from the motor or exhaust caused grass to ignite.
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