Years ago, driving south out of Boston on the Southeast Expressway, I passed a car with it's hood up and engine on fire. The car had pulled off in one of the breakdown spaces provided, and I passed by about two lanes to the left. Traffic was fast-moving and heavy, and I was on top of the fire before I realized it existed. I was convinced that the explosion would blow the hood off, right at me. It never occurred to me that the flames could sweep out across three or four lanes! This is the sort of thing that I'd always check
The Boston Globe for the next day, and never find anything written about it.
