An Arkansas motorcyclist was engulfed in a “fireball” and is recuperating in the hospital after a state trooper deployed a Taser and it hit a gallon of gasoline in his backpack, authorities said.

Christopher Gaylor, 38, was struck by the Taser after he led Arkansas troopers on a chase early Oct. 13 in Little Rock, state police said in a news release.

The chase started when Gaylor was spotted riding a motorcycle with no license plate around 1:20 a.m. along Asher Avenue in Little Rock.

A trooper tried to initiate a traffic stop, but Gaylor “refused to comply” and kept on driving, reaching speeds approaching 100 mph and ignoring traffic stop signs and lights along the way, state police said.