Car parked outside JD Sports on Edge Lane bursts into flames

A car parked in a retail park went up in flames after an "accidental ignition".

Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service confirmed a crew was called to Liverpool Shopping Park, off Edge Lane, at around 2.40pm today, Thursday, May 2 following reports of a car fire. The fire engine arrived five minutes later and found one vehicle in the car park involved in the fire.

A spokesperson for the fire service said: "A firefighter wearing breathing apparatus used a hose reel jet under general observation to extinguish the fire. The cause was determined to be accidental ignition." Images sent to the ECHO showed the incident happened outside the JD Sports store on the retail park.

The image showed a firefighter tackling the car blaze inside a cordon that had been erected by Merseyside Police. A video also seen by the ECHO showed the front of the car engulfed in flames with black smoke billowing from the front.

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Merseyside Fire and Rescue Service said the crew remained on scene to check for fire spread before handing the scene over to Merseyside Police. A spokesperson for Merseyside Police confirmed officers remain at the scene.

The incident was separate to a two-car crash on Edge Lane at around 12.55pm today. Images sent to the ECHO showed the road blocked off by police with one of the vehicles involved in the incident flipped over and on its roof. The road was reopened at around 3pm.

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