A man truck set on fire when he tried to remove a petrol hose while playing on his phone.
In footage the driver, who has not been identified, can seen filling the vehicle at a Total petrol station in Cortazar, central Mexico this Monday.
The man appears to attempt to remove the petrol hose from the car with his mobile in his hand.
As the phone makes contact with the gas tank a flame shoots out and spreads quickly, engulfing the truck.
The man drops the petrol hose and backs away from the car while the flames course around the vehicle.
The fire bursts alone one sign of the white truck, which sits perilously close to the petrol pumps and another vehicle.
The fire department was called to the scene and they successfully put the fire out before it could spread to other vehicles.
No one was injured but the man's Chevrolet RAM 700 was completely destroyed by the fire.
Aurelio Cantu, deputy director of civil protection of Ciudad Madero, told local paper Milenio that using mobile phones is prohibited at petrol stations.
Small electrical charges given off by a mobile phone when it is receiving a call can spark a flame, he said.
Cantu's explanation for the fire has been contested with some sources such as the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI) arguing that a mobile phone cannot cause a fire.
It did admit that a defective mobile phone battery could result in a spark that could ignite a fire however.
No one was injured in the incident.
