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[Markjay]

Happened at my local Tesco last week:

Woman drives dual-fuel car into petrol station.

Woman stops at the petrol pump and gets out of car.

Woman looks at the two filling caps, scratched her head and takes a gamble. On the wrong cap.

Woman pours 95RON into LPG tank and fills it to the brim.

Woman goes back into car.

Woman switched ignition on and cranks the engine.

Woman is taken to hospital after car explodes, petrol pump catches fire, and petrol station evacuated.

[Jimbob]

NO!

can't beleive that is even possible, someone must have designed against that surely  

[Markjay]

I found it odd as well.... but the car did explode and the pump was on fire (it's still back - I'll take a picture later and post it). My wife heard the story about the woman filling up petrol into the LPG tank form the cashier at Tesco. I'll google it and see what I find...

[Martin_1962]

Can't put petrol in an LPG tank - completely different fillers

[Markjay]

My initial though when I saw the burnt pump was of a car being overfilled and petrol dripping on the hot exhaust due to faulty/broken overflow pipe....

[Jimbob]

you can make things foolproof

you cant make em idiotproof  :-/

[Craig_R]

As Martin says its impossible to put petrol in a lpg connector

it would be like pouring petrol onto your car.

But i have seen many many time people filling their cars with LPG and not disconnecting the hose and driving off, the LPG pump hose is designed to break away as loads of numptys do this, MUPPETS

[Paul M]

Agreed... impossible. It's not just that the connector is different, the LPG tank is pressurised to around 5 bar to keep the fuel in liquid form. So even if you could somehow force the petrol nozzle into the gas filler (which itself is pretty near impossible) the only possible outcome is you'd release the pressure valve and some gas would escape. There is no way the petrol pump produces enough pressure to force petrol into the gas tank, even if you could get the tight seal required.

Yet another urban myth methinks

[Markie]

I blame tesco  

[Baron Von Spongebob]

I blame tesco  

So do i and for me not getting my mail  

[Taxi_Driver]

My initial though when I saw the burnt pump was of a car being overfilled and petrol dripping on the hot exhaust due to faulty/broken overflow pipe....

I agree with this reason, filled petrol tank to the brim and possible hole in the top of the tank, caused it leak out and catch fire on something very hot.

As others have said, impossible to put petrol in a lpg tank or vice versa.

[Markjay]

[Danny]

women!

[Kevin Wood]

Shame the inferno obviously wasn't big enough to engulf the Toyota Pious at the next pump - filling up with carrot juice, presumably?  

You'd still have to try pretty hard to blow up the local Tesco I reckon. There's nothing at the back of a car, even the exhaust, that's hot enough to flash a petrol spill. Brake fluid is another matter.

Kevin

[Elite Pete]

I saw a programe a few months ago and they were showing footage from a petrol station in America. A woman pulled and put the petrol pump nozzel into her car and clicked the handle to continue filling without her holding the pump. She then opened the car door while the car was still filling and pulled out a jumper and put it on, next thing whoosh she went up in flames. They said it was the static off the jumper that set her alight.

Scary stuff