In Washington, a woman died from the evaporation of dry ice in a new car

One resident of Washington died and another is in serious condition after an accident triggered by the evaporation of dry ice in a new car. And this is not the only such incident in the United States over the past ten years.

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Pearce County officials reported that Dippin 'Dots ice cream delivery officer’s wife was taking her mother home late on Thursday, when the evaporation of dry ice in the car formed a toxic mixture, says USA Today.

Dry ice, often used in the transport of perishable products (including ice cream), is a solid form of carbon dioxide that can displace oxygen, experts say at the University of Washington. Therefore, it cannot be stored in closed containers or rooms.

Early the next morning, the husband discovered that his wife and mother-in-law were sitting in the car a few blocks from his house. The man pulled his wife out of the car, breaking the glass with a stone, and called 911. 77-year-old mother-in-law was declared dead at the scene, and his wife in critical condition was taken to hospital.

A county medical expert said death was probably caused by suffocation.

"He had four coolers filled with dry ice in his car because he was delivering Dippin' Dots ice cream to different locations," Shire County spokesman Ed Troyer said. “He recently got a new car—and it probably had a better interior seal.”

Dry ice-related deaths are rare, but they have happened before. In 2016, a woman told a St. Louis Post-Dispatch that her brother, the owner of a delivery company, died from exposure to dry ice fumes after falling into a coma. In 2009, another case was recorded - a 20-year-old man, for some reason, was hiding in a container with dry ice in a factory and died from carbon monoxide poisoning.

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