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Title: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: JamesV6CDX on 18 June 2010, 12:38:04
Article is a few months old, but still:

A car exploded yesterday at a gas station near The Ericsson Globe Arenas in Stockholm.

The car was standing at a pump when the explosion occurred.

One person became unconscious and is seriously injured.

Another person has received shrapnel injuries but is conscious.

The damage to the car is complete.

 "That something like this happens is extremely rare," said chief fire officer Mikael Lundh.

The reason for the explosion was that the car had illegally been modified to run on LPG, but the driver tried to fill it with ordinary vehicle gas. (SVT/DN)

http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4739


Unsure how CNG could be put into an LPG tank, would have thought the connections would be different....
Title: Re: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: Radar on 18 June 2010, 14:52:21
As you say the connections would be different - maybe he was smoking a cigarrette at the time!!
Title: Re: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: Marks DTM Calib on 18 June 2010, 14:58:53
No surprise, it was in the winter, they old go slightly mad due to the lack of light and short days over there around that sort of time.

Hence why the booze duty is so high
Title: Re: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: Vamps on 18 June 2010, 23:21:09
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Article is a few months old, but still:

A car exploded yesterday at a gas station near The Ericsson Globe Arenas in Stockholm.

The car was standing at a pump when the explosion occurred.

One person became unconscious and is seriously injured.

Another person has received shrapnel injuries but is conscious.

The damage to the car is complete.

 "That something like this happens is extremely rare," said chief fire officer Mikael Lundh.

The reason for the explosion was that the car had illegally been modified to run on LPG, but the driver tried to fill it with ordinary vehicle gas. (SVT/DN)

http://www.stockholmnews.com/more.aspx?NID=4739


Unsure how CNG could be put into an LPG tank, would have thought the connections would be different....

Not sure that I realised there were two systems on cars / vehicles.... :-[ :-/
Title: Re: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: Elite Pete on 19 June 2010, 05:00:51
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No surprise, it was in the winter, they old go slightly mad due to the lack of light and short days over there around that sort of time.

Hence why the booze duty is so high
The bloke putting the wrong gas in his car tried his best to remedy that ::)
Title: Re: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: 2woody on 20 June 2010, 22:39:48
i think they meant petrol - as in the US "gasoline" gas.
Title: Re: DIY LPG Converted vehicle explodes
Post by: kcl on 23 June 2010, 11:27:01
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No surprise, it was in the winter, they old go slightly mad due to the lack of light and short days over there around that sort of time.

Hence why the booze duty is so high

 ;D ;D ;D And we Scandinavians do have some belief of British people  :D ;D