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Originally Posted by mike657894

Approximately one in eight fires responded to by fire departments across the
nation is a highway vehicle fire. This does not include the tens of thousands of
fire department responses to highway vehicle accident sites.
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Unintentional action (38 percent) was the leading cause of highway vehicle fires.
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Eighty-three percent of highway vehicle fires occurred in passenger vehicles.
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Sixty-two percent of highway vehicle fires and 36 percent of fatal highway vehicle
fires originated in the engine, running gear or wheel area of the vehicle.
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Mechanical failure was the leading factor contributing to the ignition of highway
vehicle fires (45 percent).
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Insulation around electrical wiring (29 percent) and flammable liquids in the engine
area (18 percent) were the most common items first ignited in highway vehicle fires.
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Sixty percent of fatal vehicle fires were the result of a collision.
Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the United States, resulting
in an annual average of 345 deaths; 1,300 injuries; and $1.1 billion in property loss.
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These highway vehicle fires
accounted for 13 percent of fires responded to by fire departments across the nation.
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The term “highway vehicle
fires” includes fires in passenger road vehicles (e.g., cars, motorcycles and off-road recreational vehicles), freight road
transport vehicles (e.g., dump trucks, fire apparatus and tank trucks), and agricultural and construction vehicles. https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/...tics/v19i2.pdf

I was in the US a few months ago and I couldn't believe the number of times I saw a burnt patch of road where a vehicle had gone up. It's something very rare here - better vehicles, maybe?