No, This Video Doesn't Show Car Burning on Malad East Highway in Mumbai

A video showing a car engulfed in flames is going viral on social media platforms with users claiming that the incident recently happened along a highway in Malad in , .

An archive of the post can be found .

The same video is being widely shared on Facebook. (Archives of similar such claims can be found and .)

What are the facts?: The video is not from Maharashtra. It actually shows visuals of a burning car on the Ajmer Road in Jaipur, .

How did we find out?: We used the help of Google reverse search to conduct a reverse image search on the video and found the same visuals on an named 'pratidintime'.

• It was uploaded on 13 October with a caption that said, "A driverless car engulfed in flames sped down an elevated road on Ajmer Road towards Sudarshanpura Pulia in Jaipur on Saturday, colliding with a parked bike before crashing into a road divider..."

News reports: A report published in said that a driverless car was seen engulfed in flames on Ajmer Road towards Sudarshanpura Pulia.

• It said that the burning car collided with a parked bike, prompting other motorists to save their vehicles.

• The car stopped after it hit a road divider. The report further said that no one was injured during the incident.

• , too, shared visuals from the incident on their official YouTube channel on 12 October.

• Its title when translated to English said, "Jaipur: Public kept running ahead and 'Burning Car' kept running behind. Video Viral."

Geolocating the place: On going through Rajasthan Tak's video report, we found names of several shops like "Shagun Sweets" and "Lavanya in the background.

• Taking these as hint, we searched for the first shop on . Using the help of 'street view', we found visuals that appeared similar to the video report.

Comparing visuals: Team WebQoof compared keyframes from the video report to the visuals available on Google Maps and found that the incident was indeed from Rajasthan.

A comparison clearly highlights the similarities.

Conclusion: This video is from Rajasthan and not Maharashtra as claimed in the viral post.

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