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Florida Man's Truck Totaled By Lightning Strike Caught OnDashCam
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By Ben Hooper
Aug. 11 (UPI) -
- A Florida man's dashboard cam- era was rolling when a bolt of lightning struck his brand-new 2020 Ford Ranger truck and put the vehicle "in intensive care."
Jack Foraker said he was approach- ing Big Carlos Pass in Lee County while on his way home to Estero when he drove into the storm.
"I saw a few peo-
ple that were just stragglers leaving the beach. And I said to myself, those are the type of people who get hit by lightning because they're just leaving too late, and contin- ued going. Turns out, they weren't the people that got hit by light- ning, I was," Foraker told WINK-TV.
Foraker's dash- board camera was recording when a bolt of lightning struck his vehicle, caus- ing it to shut
down.
"Just sounded like a shotgun blast to the back of my truck. And then yeah, it was. It was pretty scary," he said. "My windshield wiper stopped, lost my power brakes, lost my power steering."
The driver, who was not injured, was able to pull over to the side of the road.
The truck, which only had 4,000 miles on it, was badly damaged.
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