U.K. Teen Dies in Blast After Cigarette Sparks Hair Bleach:
In freak accident, hydrogen peroxide used to lighten hair sparks when hair dresser lights a cigarette, causing her car to explode.A British hairdresser died after her cigarette ignited a leaking bottle of hydrogen peroxide bleach which then blew up in her car as she drove along a quiet country lane, the Bournemouth Echo reported Thursday.
Jennie Mitchell’s grieving father Bob urged hairdressers to show extreme caution when carrying the hydrogen peroxide, a powerful bleach used to lighten hair when mixed with ammonia.
“The hydrogen peroxide had ventilated in the car. She opened the window, which introduced oxygen,” he said.
“Jennie was a smoker and it’s likely that she lit or had a lit a cigarette.”
“Until the accident, nobody knew this could happen. We keep saying, you couldn’t have written this in a script.”
