Claim man ‘endangered lives’ with sparking lighter at Dundee petrol pump
ByGordon Currie
The incident is said to have happened at the Shell petrol station on West Marketgait.
A 35-year-old man has been accused of endangering lives in Dundee by holding a petrol pump and sparking his lighter next to the end of it.
Benjamin Blaney is alleged to have crouched down with the highly flammable fuel hose in one hand and the sparking lighter in the other hand.
Blaney, from Perth, allegedly culpably and recklessly endangered lives during the incident at the Shell filling station in West Marketgait on November 19, last year.
It is alleged he endangered himself and others by removing a petrol pump hose from the pump, crouching down and placing a lighter at the end of the nozzle and repeatedly sparking it.
Blaney denies the indictment and the case at Dundee Sheriff Court was put off until October.
