VIDEO: Franklin Police are searching for a driver who is throwing fireworks from a moving car. Video captured one of the incidents on East Street on July 3.
“When you’re dealing with fireworks, which are explosives, there can be unintended consequences,” Franklin Police Sgt. Brian Johnson said.
Police say someone threw a firework from a dark colored Toyota Corolla and it exploded under a car sitting in a driveway. It caused a fire that destroyed the vehicle.
“As that firework ignites it shoots up a driveway and it catches the vehicle that’s in the driveway just right, you couldn’t duplicate it if you tried,” Sgt. Johnson said. “It ends up catching the vehicle on fire. The vehicle burns to the ground.”
Investigators say it could have been much worse.