A child inadvertently blew up a car after spraying a smoking adult with a highly flammable aerosol, North Carolina investigators say. 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.
Photos show the impact popped out the car’s roof, buckled the doors and blew out all the windows. Caldwell County photo “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.”
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