car fire
Roadside automotive blaze
A car fire is a vehicle engulfed in flames, typically from mechanical failure, collision, or arson.
The phrase appears in traffic reports and news: Traffic is backed up due to a car fire on the highway.
Figuratively, car fire describes something going disastrously wrong or spiraling out of control: The meeting was a complete car fire.
- flamesVisible burning combustion
- black smokeSooty airborne combustion byproduct
- smokeAirborne combustion byproduct
- burningCombustion in progress
- blazeIntense burning fire
up in flames · explosion · engine block · wreckage · highway · inferno · engine · gasoline · arson · emergency · firefighters · extinguisher · melting · charred · burned out · hood · roadside · pull over
- traffic incidentsaccident, collision, pileup, fender bender, wreck
- arsonarson, arsonist, arson investigator, arson investigation, attempted arson
- fireflame, blaze, flames, inferno, embers
- car troublesflat tire, dead battery, breakdown, overheating, stalling