A car caught fire around midnight on Wednesday after it rammed into a tree on Diggi Road in Phagi town of Rajasthan`s Jaipur, officials said. Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Prem Chand Bairwa, who reached the spot to assess the situation, said there were no casualties in the incident. The driver, who was alone in the vehicle, escaped without injuries.

"This car hit a neem tree and uprooted it. The driver survived and has been spoken to. The car caught fire and was completely destroyed. There were no casualties. The fire brigade was called immediately," Bairwa told ANI. The Deputy Chief Minister was at another accident site on the Jaipur-Ajmer Highway when information about the Phagi incident was received.