FIREFIGHTERS were called to put out a car fire on the motorway.
The small fire was in the vehicle's engine compartment in the incident on the hard shoulder of the M5 southbound just after Wellington.
Crews extinguished the blaze after the call out shortly after 4pm today, Saturday, February 14.
The cause of the fire is believed to have been accidental.
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