On Monday, June 10, 2019 at 12:27:27 PM UTC-4, a425couple wrote:

from https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/10/us/motorcyclist-killed-lightning-florida-trnd/index.html

(How did this happen? I thought the rubber in tires was an
insulator. How did the 'electrical charge' from the ground
go up through the tires to the motorcycle, and up to the
riders head?)

A motorcyclist is killed by a bolt of lightning in Florida
By Scottie Andrew and Saeed Ahmed, CNN

Updated 9:56 AM ET, Mon June 10, 2019
The victim's helmet
The victim's helmet
(CNN)A man was killed after he was struck by lightning while riding his motorcycle in northeast Florida.

The 45-year-old man was traveling south on Interstate 95 around 2 p.m. Sunday when he was struck, the Florida Highway Patrol reported.
Lightning shattered the cyclist's helmet, officials said. He swerved
into the median and was thrown from the vehicle.
Authorities haven't identified the man, from Charlotte, North Carolina.
He died at the scene.
The department tweeted a photo of the man's helmet, punctured by the strike.

@FHPOrlando
This is what’s left of a 45 year old man’s helmet after he was struck by lightning, while riding his motorcycle southbound, on I-95 in Volusia County this afternoon. Unfortunately he did not survive the crash.

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Lightning killed 47 people in Florida between 2008 and 2017, the highest number of fatalities of any state. Widely considered the lightning
capital of the U.S. for its sheer density of flashes, the state's heat, humidity and sea breezes from its dual coasts make severe weather events more likely.

Odds are he died from injuries sustained from the crash not the lightening strike. Odds are it's another misleading headline. Like dog bites man isn't news but man bites dog is.

If he had just lost control from running over a _________ and crashed and died that's local not headline CNN story. But whooo weee, gettin hit by lightening while yer toolin down the hiway...now that's NEWS worthy of a grab'um headline.

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