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Rocky Hill woman torches car in failed attempt to toss cigarette out window 

Jump to full article: NJ.com, 2010-08-31
Author: Tom Haydon/The Star-Ledger

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SOUTH BRUNSWICK — A driver tried to throw her cigarette out of her car window, but the still-burning tobacco fell inside the vehicle, setting it on fire, police said.

At 9 a.m. Monday, police responded to a 911 call of a car burning on Bard Drive North and found a 1998 Honda Civic fully engulfed in flames.

The 19-year-old driver, from nearby Rocky Hill, told police she had been smoking a cigarette moments before the fire and tried throw it out the window.

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