Lester Cher s car caught fire when he was driving along Bukit Timah Expressway on March 6, 2021. - PHOTO COURTESY OF LESTER CHER via The Straits Times/ANN SINGAPORE, April 4 (The Straits Times/ANN): Lester Cher, 33, was driving along the Bukit Timah Expressway to pick up his wife when he noticed a burning smell and white smoke being emitted from an air-conditioner vent.
The father of two pulled his BMW X1 over to the side on the afternoon of March 6, inspected the vehicle and realised that the fuse box was burning. Within 10 minutes, the car was ruined.
Cher, who bought the second-hand vehicle last August, said: It was traumatising to see how the car got engulfed in an inferno in a matter of minutes. Nothing was left.
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