The accident happened around 7:30 p.m. Thursday inside a Kia Soul.
A child inadvertently blew up a smoker after spraying the 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 Lenoir, 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.” 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. Lenoir is about an hour east of Asheville in the western part of the state.
