A woman says she barely had time to grab her 10-month-old son before her car went up in flames on the side of the road.
TikTok user Nuvia (@n.riesgo) documented the aftermath in a recent video.
“When I thought my car was overheating but then the saxophones start playing…,” she wrote in the text overlay of the clip. “The saxophones start playing,” also stylized as “the saxophones start getting louder,” is a sound that’s gone viral on TikTok this summer, per Know Your Meme. It indicates a pending catastrophe or unpleasant turn of events.
Nuvia said she was driving when her car suddenly displayed an “engine malfunction” warning. After she pulled over, smoke began pouring from the vehicle before a flame appeared.
“I was driving when suddenly my car started saying ‘engine malfunction.’ When I pulled over, the car started smoking and then a flame lit. I never jumped so fast to the back of my car and grabbed my 10-month-old and made sure to get him far away from the car [in case] it exploded. Then went back and grabbed my NUNA stroller (IYKYK), then backed up enough away from the car when the flames took over, and the car exploded,” she wrote in the caption.
