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Laptop Blamed For Fire That Caused Crash, Destroyed Truck

Posted: 4:25 pm EDT September 6, 2006

A Florida father said his laptop computer caught his truck on fire and put his daughter's life in danger.

David Costello and his daughter were traveling through Hillsborough County in his truck on Monday. Costello said he turned on his Dell laptop computer so his daughter could watch a movie. That's when the computer stated smoking.

"It started smoking and, at that time I tossed it as far away from her as I could into the back seat," Costello said.

"He saw it smoking and it just, just got the whole truck on fire," said Kayla Costello.

Costello ended up crashing into a sign. He got his daughter out just before the truck went up in flames.

Dell Computers said the laptop in question is not the same model that had recently been recalled.

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