Exploding Car: Deodorant And Cigarette Turn It Into A Bomb

WOODLAWN, MD — Officials say one person has serious injuries Thursday after lighting a cigarette in a vehicle. Emergency personnel were dispatched at 11:24 a.m. to a reported vehicle fire in Woodlawn.

Once they arrived in the 1600 block of Whitehead Court, first responders found one person whom they took to Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center's burn unit for treatment of serious injuries.

Officials said that the person had sprayed aerosol deodorant, then lit a cigarette.

The victim was outside The Restaurant Store at the time, according to WJZ, which reported that the store manager heard what sounded like an explosion and called 911. The roof had blown off the car outside.

A similar explosion occurred in September in England, where a woman lit a cigarette that interacted with an aerosol air freshener in her car, blowing it apart, according to the Daily Mail.

Warning labels on aerosol sprays alert users not to smoke after use and not to use the sprays in confined spaces.

Photos courtesy of Baltimore County Police & Fire.