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Exploding DVD player leaves three-year-old with severe burns

A Bendigo mother has spoken of the horror of learning her three-year-old daughter had suffered severe burns when a portable DVD player exploded in her lap in the family car.It kills me that I couldnt be there when she needed me Amber Lyons told the Bendigo Advertiser.

Its every parents nightmare first to be told that it had happened but secondly to have witnessed it.Mrs Lyons husband Heath and their daughter Ava were travelling towards Rochester on July  when he noticed a burning smell in the car.Mr Lyons pulled to the side of the road to investigate suspecting the smell had come from the car bonnet.

Suddenly he witnessed a flash inside the car and ran to the door to find his daughter screaming with some of her clothing on fire.Mr Lyons quickly pulled his daughter from the car and used her apple drink to extinguish the flames.

He said the explosion which originated from the sealed battery compartment of the device, left Avas padded seatbelt covers smouldering as well as a soft toy she had sitting with her. Ava, who was flown from Rochester to the Royal Childrens Hospital suffered partial thickness burns to her right hand, as well as superficial burns to her cheeks lips nose eye lids and eyebrows.

At this stage Heath is quite shaken by the event and is understandably experiencing some stress and anxiety at witnessing his daughter sustain such horrendous injuries Mrs Lyons said.Exploding DVD player leaves three-year-old with severe burns