Article: Qld: Woman dives from moving vehicle to escape fireball


AAP General News (Australia)
01-27-2009
Qld: Woman dives from moving vehicle to escape fireball

By David Barbeler

BRISBANE, Jan 27 AAP - A woman has jumped from a moving car and her husband has suffered
burns after a fireball from an exploding LPG gas cylinder engulfed their vehicle.

The couple were driving along Proston Road, at Proston, 280km north-west of Brisbane,
around 1pm (AEST)on Monday when one of two gas cylinders in the back of their vehicle
exploded.

The 49-year-old husband, who was driving the vehicle, attempted to slow down as the
fireball engulfed the inside of the vehicle.

The fire intensified and when the car slowed down to 40km/h the woman followed a suggestion
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