Dalton Radford and his father Tim, after claiming his $1 million lottery prize

lucky teenager has scooped a cool $1 million (£820,000) on a lottery scratchcard just two weeks after his grandfather predicted he would.

Dalton Radford was heading to his second job when he stopped at a local store to buy an energy drink and two scratchcards.

The 18-year-old, a public work employee, said: “I left work and was going to my second job.

“I stopped for a white Monster drink and two Carolina Jackpot tickets.” Dalton said he realised he scooped a million when he checked the scratchcards in the store’s car park. He told North Carolina Education Lottery: “I thought ‘Hey, I just won a million dollars'.

He claimed his prize at the lottery company’s headquarters in Raleigh. North Carolina Education Lottery said Dalton could have taken a lump sum payment of $600,000 (£491,412) or an annual payment of $50,000 (£40,951) over 20 years.