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A driver caused a huge fire at a petrol station by trying to kill a spider with his lighter.

Incredible CCTV footage shows the baseball cap-wearing man try and kill the creepy crawly as he killed up his car.

A huge flame engulfs the gas pump as ignites his lighter as he pumps highly-flammable petrol into the vehicle.

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The fire quickly smothered the station's only pump and completely destroyed it.

The driver grabbed a fire extinguisher and put out the flames before the firefighters arrived, Fox News 2 Detroit reported.

It could have been even worse if calm employee Susan Adams hadn't hit the automatic stop button.

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Miraculously, the driver escaped without serious injury.

But the brush with death didn't stop him coming back as a customer at the Detroit petrol station the next day.

Ms Adams said: "He was sorry, he said he didn't know. It is just one of those things that happen - stupidity."