At a petrol station along the motorway, a flash occurs at around 5pm, when a customer begins filling the auxiliary LPG tank onboard his camper van (running on diesel) from Italy. When the incident occurs, the filling has not actually begun, as the tank is beginning to load but no volume has yet been recorded in the cabin. The driver who was performing the operation is brought to hospital with severe burns. The station’s electrical safety is ensured by actuating the emergency circuit breaker. A safety barrier is set up. Initial findings show that the fill hole on this auxiliary tank was located under the body of the vehicle and that one had to lower oneself to the ground in order to make the connection. The flash, which came from an air grate in the camping van, caused burns to the driver’s upper body. There is little damage to the vehicle: traces between the fill hole and the air grate. The vehicle is removed by its owners and the distribution pump is shut off at the circuit breaker to prevent any electrical hazard. The emergency responders do not detect any anomaly at this stage. That night, at around 12:30am, fire fighters are called to the petrol station after an incipient fire appears at the bottom of the LPG distribution device. They reveal a small leak in this spot on the device (between the manual valve on the line and the solenoid valve) and shut off the gas inlet valve, which stops the leak. As a precautionary measure, the motorway company decides to close the rest area/service station even though the facilities have hardly been affected by the events in question. An inspection by the authorities for classified facilities the following day recommends that the station resume operations on certain conditions and with the permission of court-appointed experts: it must purge the connecting lines and conduct a campaign to check the gas levels (with duly documented results), ensure isolation of tank valves in closed position, temporarily perform regular checks to detect any residual leak. According to information available at present, it is not certain whether there is a connection between these two incidents (flash and fire).