McDonald’s customers had to be rushed to safety after a car burst into flames in its drive-thru lane. The fast-food restaurant in Wakes Road, Wigston, just outside Leicester, had to be closed while firefighters attended the blaze.Thick smoke billowed across the road after the vehicle’s engine caught fire.Eyewitness Charles Wheeler said: “We were driving along Welford Road to McDonald’s for some lunch when about 100 yards away we saw lots of smoke.“I said to my partner: ‘I hope that isn’t McDonald’s on fire’.