(17 May 2014, 6:29 am)citaro5284 wrote Whilst is may look high, it maybe now we are finding out about them more as opposed to 'the old days' without social media and forums like this.
It would be interesting to know how many car fires there is in a month across the North East area versus how many bus fires there is.
Excluding arson, I don't think there will be too many.
Maybe an FOI request to the fire brigade would help. Their investigations would help determine the location and cause of the fire too.
In experience, most cars catch fire through an electrical fault or due to poor maintenance.
Can't see it being too much different with a bus.
Just found this paper: http://papers.sae.org/2012-01-0989/ Not paying to download it, but the abstract explains findings in brief.