A rolled car, which came to a rest on its roof, caught fire in Shepparton in the early hours of Thursday morning.
Fire Rescue Victoria responded to the Packham St incident at 2.34am on March 12 after multiple 000 callers reported a car fire spreading to grass.
A witness at the scene with CCTV footage of the incident told The News later that same morning that the vehicle had entered a reserve on Packham St through a gap in the fence before performing doughnuts and flipping at around 2.15am.
He said “three or four” occupants exited the vehicle and, shortly after, another car arrived on scene via the same entrance before the first car became engulfed in flames.
Other nearby residents reported they had been woken by “five or six loud bangs”, which Shepparton police said were explosions caused by the fire in the vehicle.
Police believe the burnt vehicle was stolen.
“Firefighters arrived on scene within six minutes, and the incident was deemed under control at 2.46am,” an FRV spokesperson said.
Two fire trucks responded to the incident.
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