Car explodes after couple hides crack cocaine in gas tank

September 21, 2010 • 12:19 pm

Diana Fasanella

A Brazilian couple’s car exploded after they hid crack cocaine in the fuel tank and then tried to fill it with gas. 

The pair, who were not identified, apparently tried to hide 11 pounds of crack inside their car’s natural gas fuel tank before it blew up when they filled it with gas in Brasilia, The Canadian Press reports. 

Shards of the car were blasted some 20 yards while the station walls were peppered with the drug. 

Experts speculated that the crack shoved into the small pipes of the tank caused undue pressure on its integrity and caused it to explode during filling. 

The 36-year-old man and 24-year-old woman both sustained non-life threatening injuries in the explosion and were taken to the hospital for treatment