Love Island star narrowly escapes death as £200k car explodes into fireball while driving

Love Island prima Danny Bibby revealed his car exploded into flames portion helium was driving his 'dream car', a McLaren 720S, astatine 30 miles per hour

Love Island prima Danny Bibby narrowly escaped decease aft his supercar burst into flames portion helium was driving.

The 28-year-old said helium was driving his McLaren 720S, worthy astir £220,000, astatine 30mph erstwhile the backmost extremity of his 'dream car' burst into flames. The prima rushed retired to get the occurrence extinguisher, but the full car soon 'exploded successful his face'. He shared videos of his car, engulfed successful flames, onto his Instagram Stories arsenic helium tried to marque airy retired of the situation.

Along with a video of the backmost extremity of his car connected fire, helium wrote: "'Have you got thing to enactment that retired with?' Ye mate here, conscionable letting it pain to the crushed for a laughter innit." In different video wherever the flames doubled successful size, helium wrote: "Mate ideate my nephew was inactive with maine wow."

After receiving hundreds of acrophobic messages from fans, Danny filmed a video from the backmost of a car arsenic helium explained what happened. He said: "I was conscionable driving astir 30mph and past adjacent infinitesimal the car changed cogwheel and the backmost extremity was connected fire. I pulled over, ran to the occurrence extinguisher."

He added: "As I'm putting the occurrence extinguisher, the car exploded successful my look and fundamentally I conscionable had to beryllium and ticker my imagination car conscionable pain to the crushed and everyone conscionable sat determination and watched it. Pretty sad, but... Obviously, it's a acceptable back. I'm trying to power it into a positive. I'm trying to spot the affirmative successful it but I'm not rather definite what that is yet. But it's happened for a crushed but I don't cognize wherefore arsenic yet."

Danny besides filmed the firemen extinguishing the monolithic flames, which consumed the car until determination was hardly thing left. "Sound, that mate," helium said arsenic helium showed fans the remnants of his car. "F**king bully one." Fans rushed to the remark conception to stock their alleviation implicit his safety.

"Wow! You’re truthful lucky!!!! So atrocious to spot this though, anticipation you’re ok!," 1 idiosyncratic said portion different added: "Cars travel and go, beingness doesn’t. Be gladsome you safe." One instrumentality commented: "Dammm , beryllium thankful for beingness it’s conscionable things astatine the extremity of the day," with galore others sharing the aforesaid sentiment.

Danny recovered fame connected Love Island successful 2021 but has made his surviving from moving his ain men's fragrance and covering line.

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