Posted on 06/10/2019 10:33:21 AM PDT by Red Badger
A motorcycle rider in Florida was killed on Sunday when he was struck by lightning while driving on Interstate 95. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that the motorcyclist from Charlotte, North Carolina suffered the fatal crash after lightning struck his helmet.
Florida Highway Patrol Capt. Kim Montes told reporters that a Virginia State Police trooper had happened to see the accident while on vacation. He told law enforcement that he saw a bolt of lightning strike the man's helmet a second before the deadly crash.
The 45-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:11 p.m. on Sunday. His name has not been released to the public. Montes confirmed there were scorch marks left on the helmet which indicated it had been hit by lightning.
A Florida Highway Patrol spokesperson is cited as describing the helmet as shattered.
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Well, it was raining and I went back to Boston to care for my aging sick Momma, so all that is missing is the train.
And prison.
But since I went back to MA, that point is debatable.
You’d also have to get drunk and have a truck.
Don’t have a truck...
The Taiwan animator news should have an interesting report on this.
Are those holes positive and negative?
My cousin was a trooper upstate new York. He actually picked up a helmet with a guys head in it. The taconic was not forgiving.
Yeah!
I’d need therapy and prozac and xanax for 5 years.
One girl riding in a gang skidded about 50 feet on her face after the bike hit some rocks and skidded out from under them.
I’m afraid to ask about the poor kid’s face...!!!
Yeah she didn’t make it.
####.
SMH.
that’s a rough job.
I was about to post a correction to the story.
This was really North Carolina Man. The red-headed step-child of Florida Man, down to visit his estranged relative in the panhandle.
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