Lightning struck a Ford pickup truck on Highway 101 on Sunday, but the man and dog inside only suffered minor injuries. [KEYT]
Paso Robles man James Benson was returning home from delivering birthday presents to his granddaughter in Templeton. He had just passed the Highway 46 off-ramp when lightning struck his vehicle.
The lighting cracked the windshield and ripped off the antenna. It also shut down the electrical system, including the power steering and power brakes.
Benson’s head hit the mirror, and his chest hit the steering wheel. But, when another man came running over to the truck, Benson said he was all right, and he asked the man what happened.
The other man informed Benson that lightning hit his truck.
Benson said he never saw the lightning. All he could remember was a loud boom and the windshield cracking. He described the sound as the biggest noise you would ever want to hear.
Benson’s dog Buster suffered some bumps and bruises. The lightning did scare the devil out of Buster, though, Benson said.
I think I’d buy a few lottery tickets.
Shocking!
I guess the car tires do not ground us and prevent that like I thought they did! Glad everything is okay….
Tires don’t but it is interesting how your car does go about protecting you.
http://www.snopes.com/science/tires.asp
Where’s Ted! A real act of Ghod!
This has ALL of the elements for a great Country Song.
I wonder if he was listening to Rush Limbaugh at the time. Makes sense with the antenna thing
Listen to me doggy, you gotta understand, beleive it or not, it’s in the makings of a man.
Light….ning is stri….king again, and again, and again………….
Ol’ Buster lit up like a lightbulb
That fateful Juuuly night
My pickup truck is busted
It gave us quite a fright
Buster is a sooner dog
He’d sooner sleep than eat
Now when he hears a rumble
Buster runs to warm my feet.