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From: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
Newsgroups: net.auto
Subject: Re: Getting Gas with the Engine On
Message-ID: <1885@watdcsu.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 17-Nov-85 13:20:45 EST
Article-I.D.: watdcsu.1885
Posted: Sun Nov 17 13:20:45 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 18-Nov-85 06:53:58 EST
References: <912@homxb.UUCP>
Reply-To: haapanen@watdcsu.UUCP (Tom Haapanen [DCS])
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Keywords: Any danger here?
Summary: 

In article <912@homxb.UUCP> stadlin@homxb.UUCP (Art Stadlin) writes:

>Quite often while I am at the pump getting gas, someone else
>will pull up, leave the engine running, ask for $10, and the
>attendant will refuel the car.  Isn't this dangerous?
>Shouldn't the attendant know better and ask the customer
>to shut the engine off first?
>
>Has anyone ever been hurt or killed by filling a gas tank
>while the engine is running?  If so, it certainly happens
>too infrequently to make most people concerned about it.

In CART, Formula 1 (until 1983) and endurance racing, fillups are done
with the engine running.  The risk is caused by the extreme
flammability of gasoline, and that's why the pit crews (and the
driver) wear asbestos suits.  In CART, there are occasional small
fires, so it is a risk, especially in a gas station where neither the
attendant nor the customers are professionals prepared to deal with an
emergency like this.


				   \tom haapanen
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