Police investigate yet another Telford car fire after blaze spreads to fence
Investigations are under way after yet another car fire in Telford.
There have been well over a dozen fires that have destroyed cars, vans and other vehicles over the past three months in all parts of Telford.
The latest blaze, in Ketley Bank, on Monday spread to a fence.
The 999 calls were made at 11.07pm after the fire broke out in Sixth Avenue.
Two fire crews from Telford Central and a fire investigation officer were quickly on the scene along with the police.
Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service said the vehicle was 50 per cent destroyed by fire, which also destroyed an adjacent wooden fence.
The blaze was under control by 11.24pm and investigations are continuing.
It brought the total of vehicle fires in the space of 24 hours to three.
On Monday police said one of those - on Bridgnorth Road - was an isolated incident unconnected with the spate of blazes this year, and that two 17-year-olds had been arrested on suspicion of arson.
Officers also ruled out a car fire at the Whitehouse Hotel in Wellington in January as linked with any other. The car belonged to right wing activist, Tommy Robinson, who was in Telford for a march and meeting in the town.
Many of the other blazes, which have started from Leegomery to Broseley, have been on driveways to people's homes and some threatened to spread to the house itself.
The first vehicle fires were in the last days of December 2021, and have continued into April.
From the end of December through January there were six fires in just a few weeks.
Officers then appealed to the public for help in finding a "hoodie-wearing cyclist" that they believed had set fire to a car in Glendale, Lawley on December 29.
Vehicle fires continued through March and into April, as far afield as Leegomery and Broseley.
To date no one has been injured in the fires.
