car fire

A car exploded into flames Thursday evening in Maryland when a driver used hand sanitizer while smoking a cigarette, according to Montgomery County Fire and Rescue.

Officers Maggie Murphy and Michael Perry help extinguish flames from the passenger’s clothing.

Someone set fire to a Supreme Court police car Wednesday afternoon, according to Supreme Court media relations.

Transit authorities closed both directions of travel through the Lincoln Tunnel Sunday evening when a vehicle caught fire. The north and south tubes of the tunnel reopened shortly before 7 p.m., but the center tube remained closed, according to NYCEM. The NYCEM Twitter account urged drivers to consider alternative routes during the delay. The closure began started around 5 p.m….

A Good Samaritan’s quick actions saved the life of a man who caught fire during a motorcycle crash in the West Atlantic City section of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.

Volvo Cars is recalling about half a million cars worldwide because of a faulty engine component that may in extreme cases cause a vehicle to catch a fire.

A home somehow exploded in New Jersey Monday, generating a plume of smoke visible from Manhattan as firefighters battled a raging blaze on the ground.

A car fire turned a Manhattan street into what looked like a barbecue pit Monday morning, spewing thick black smoke into the air as firefighters battled intense flames, video posted to the Citizen app showed.

Zoey Pereira, of Queens, was found critically injured, in a blazing Audi over the weekend and later died at a hospital.

A 3-year-old girl died after being found in a burning car in Queens that had its doors chained shut from the inside, law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4. A gas can sat near the charred vehicle, footage from the scene showed.

A 3-year-old girl died after being found in a burning car in Queens that had its doors chained shut from the inside, law enforcement sources familiar with the case tell News 4. A gas can sat near the charred vehicle, footage from the scene showed.

A driver accused of crashing on a New York City highway and fleeing his burning car while leaving his passenger to die has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.

A car exploded into flames Friday night in the parking lot of a Buffalo Wild Wings outside the Hamilton Mall in Mays Landing, New Jersey.

Authorities say a driver who was being pulled over crashed into the front steps of a house on Long Island and fled as the car caught fire.

A Long Island woman has pleaded not guilty to a charge that she was driving while intoxicated during an eight-car chain-reaction crash on the Long Island Expressway.

Police say eight vehicles got tangled in a chain-reaction crash on the Long Island Expressway, leaving six people with minor injuries, a minivan stuck under an oil tanker and the minivan’s driver under arrest.

A car caught fire on the Queensboro Bridge on Sunday morning, officials said.

The National Weather Service has confirmed a third tornado touched down in New York Tuesday — an EF0 with estimated peak winds of 85 mph near Newburgh in Orange County; an EF2 with estimated peak winds of 110 mph, and an EF1 with 100 mph winds, which tore through nearly 200 yards in Putnam County.

Powerful storms pounded the tri-state on Tuesday with torrential rain and marble-sized hail, leaving at least six people crushed to death by falling trees and hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without power.

A Brooklyn man is facing manslaughter charges after police said he crashed his car on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and left the 25-year-old woman he was driving home to burn to death while he hailed a taxi.