Child sprays aerosol near smoking adult and causes explosion, NC officials say

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 Live.

“One person hospitalized with burns and a car heavily damaged after firefighters say a flammable aerosol can exploded inside the vehicle,” the website 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.”

Read more Child sprays aerosol near smoking adult and causes explosion, NC officials say

The spray was “a duster-type product that contained propane, Isobutane, n-Butane, and Hydrocarbon propellent,” county officials said.

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.

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