Sonu Sood is apparently thanking his stars... The ‘Dabangg’ actor recently had a close brush with fatal mishap when his car Audi caught fire.

According to sources, the incident took place when Sonu was returning from an event in Worli. The actor was luckily travelling in another car, while his friend was driving his Audi in front. A bystander seemed to have alerted him when smoke was seen coming out of the car. Fortunately the friend in the nick of time escaped out of the car and rushed away from the spot unhurt before the vehicle went into flames.

Few auto drivers who were present on the spot put out the fire and later the car was towed to Kherwadi police station.