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<blockquote data-quote="Ruger" data-source="post: 1812690" data-attributes="member: 1594"><p>I think I have figured out why Anne Heche's crash turned into an inferno. In a word or two - Electric Fuel Pump.</p><p></p><p>All modern autos, including Heche's Porche Mini Cooper, are fuel injected, and all fuel injected vehicles have electric fuel pumps. Electric fuel pumps are typically inside the fuel tank, and fuel tanks are typically at the rear of the vehicle. Heche wrecked by driving into a house, and you can see from the photos that there was extensive front-end damage to the Mini - more than enough to compromise the fuel line, the fuel rail, or both. But the fuel tank, being at the rear of the vehcile, would have been undamaged. She was probably too injured to turn off the key and probably would not have known to turn off the key anyway, so the fuel pump kept running and pumping raw gasoline into the damaged front end of the vehicle. I don't know what started the fire - maybe the battery - but I know what fueled it - gasoline under pressure from a continuously running electric fuel pump.</p><p></p><p>Word To The Wise - If you get in a wreck, turn off the key whether the engine is still running or not.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruger, post: 1812690, member: 1594"] I think I have figured out why Anne Heche's crash turned into an inferno. In a word or two - Electric Fuel Pump. All modern autos, including Heche's Porche Mini Cooper, are fuel injected, and all fuel injected vehicles have electric fuel pumps. Electric fuel pumps are typically inside the fuel tank, and fuel tanks are typically at the rear of the vehicle. Heche wrecked by driving into a house, and you can see from the photos that there was extensive front-end damage to the Mini - more than enough to compromise the fuel line, the fuel rail, or both. But the fuel tank, being at the rear of the vehcile, would have been undamaged. She was probably too injured to turn off the key and probably would not have known to turn off the key anyway, so the fuel pump kept running and pumping raw gasoline into the damaged front end of the vehicle. I don't know what started the fire - maybe the battery - but I know what fueled it - gasoline under pressure from a continuously running electric fuel pump. Word To The Wise - If you get in a wreck, turn off the key whether the engine is still running or not. [/QUOTE]
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