A woman in her 20s was hospitalised in a serious condition after an electric scooter “unexpectedly combusted” and engulfed her car in flames.
Emergency services were called to Town Court, Boronia Heights to reports of a car on fire close to a house.
The car was no longer on fire when crews arrived, but they found a woman inside.
Police say an electric scooter, that was put in the boot of the car by another person, suddenly combusted.
An ambulance service spokesperson said the woman suffered “significant burns to her chest, arms and legs, and was taken to hospital.
The fire has been treated as non-suspicious.