The spokesperson of Tehran Municipality’s fire department and safety services announced the death of a young man following a fire in a Samand vehicle on Shahid Bagheri highway.
Explaining the details of the incident, Jalal Maleki said: A fire broke out in a passenger car on the Shahid Bagheri highway, north direction, at the beginning of the entrance ramp to the Shahid Babaei highway, it was reported to the 125 system, after which two fire stations were dispatched to the scene of the incident.
According to Fars report, he said that the firemen arrived at the place about four minutes after the incident was announced, and added: Preliminary investigations showed that a Samand passenger car with a young male passenger deviated from the road for unknown reasons and after hitting the table and the side wall of the highway, it moved about 20 to 25 meters on the table. As a result of this accident, the car caught fire.
Maleki continued: When the firemen arrived, the car was completely on fire and the driver was still inside the car. Firefighters immediately started extinguishing the fire and releasing the driver, and after extinguishing the fire, they took the person out of the car and handed it over to the emergency services.
Referring to the confirmation of the driver’s death by the emergency services, he said: “Unfortunately, this young man had lost his life.”
The spokesman of the Tehran Fire Department stated that the firemen’s operation has been completed and the scene of the accident was handed over to the traffic police for further investigations, and the cause of the accident will be investigated by the traffic police and the exact cause of death will be investigated and announced by the medical examiner.
