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A child inadvertently blew up a smoker after spraying the adult with a highly flammable aerosol, North Carolina investigators say.
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The accident happened around 7:30 p.m. Thursday, inside a Kia Soul parked at the Gamewell Superette on U.S. 64 near Lenior, according to Caldwell Fire, EMS and Police.
“One person hospitalized with burns and a car heavily damaged after firefighters say a flammable aerosol can exploded inside the vehicle,” the department reported in a June 12 Facebook post.
“There were two people including a child inside the car at the time. … The can exploded when a child sprayed it while an adult was smoking in the vehicle.”
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A photo of the Kia shows the impact popped out the car’s roof, buckled the doors and blew out all the windows.
First responders did not say which of the two people in the vehicle was hospitalized.
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The Gamewell Superette is about a 75-mile drive northwest from Charlotte.