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Posted on 08/25/2003 12:44:39 PM PDT by Paraclete
A 59-year-old Florida man died Sunday afternoon after he was struck in the head by lightning while riding his Harley low-rider in Park County, authorities said.
It was the second strike involving people in Park County on Sunday.
Colorado State Patrol trooper Laurence Thomas said that at 4:45 p.m., witnesses saw lightning strike the victim, who was riding east on U.S. 24 near milepost 267.
Witnesses reported seeing lightning strike the right side of the man's helmet.
He then veered off the left side of the highway. The 2003 blue Harley rolled and the driver was ejected into a culvert.
The motorcyclist did not brake or respond in any way to the strike, witnesses reported.
Witnesses saw "a lightning bolt come down with a super loud crack of thunder and the rider on a motorcycle directly in front of them went off the road and flying down the ditch," Thomas said.
"It's something I haven't seen in my 10 years of experience."
About an hour earlier Sunday, a 17-year-old male was struck by lightning on Red Cone Pass, near Kenosha Pass.
A friend was able to revive the injured teen after he was rendered unconscious, according to Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener.
When the boys arrived at a county road, they were assisted by a Platte Canyon Fire Department firefighter who called for help.
"He was knocked out initially, but brought back by the rescuer," Wegener said.
The injured teen was airlifted to St. Anthony Central Hospital, where he was treated in the emergency room and moved to a regular room, indicating that his injuries were not life-threatening, Wegener said.
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This is how it works....
and if the viking kittens are P.O.ed you're TOAST!
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DAMN!! Dead kitties ever where.
A summer storm had kicked up , and I pulled into a out-of-season snowshed to throw on my rainsuit. The other fella already had his on, and blew by me on up the road to the hilltop. He made it up there, about 4 miles, which was where the lightning got him.
My first thought was that he'd just run off the side of the road in the damp, but I took off in hopes of finding a sheriff's or highway patrol cruiser, and of course there wasn't one around when I needed one; I found one in the next town, about 15 miles off. I told the cop another biker had gone off the road, a good 400 feet or so off the road down the hillside. He asked me to show him where it was and seemed a bit perturbed that I chose to stay on my bike rather than ride there in his car with him, but once we got there he realized it was no gag or hoax.
Like me, he figured the hillside was too steep to try to climb down as rail-slick and treacherous as it was, and called for the local mountain rescue team.
I gave him as much of a statement as I could, and I think he was still a little suspicious of me when I noted that we were both riding the same make of bike, were both from out-of-state, but from different states. All in all, it took about 4 hours of my time, but it was a considerably worse inconvenience for that other poor guy.
By the way: his helmet didn't help a bit with his particular problem. Lightning in the mountains sure is pretty to watch. From a long way off, and not from a particularly high overlook.
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