Australian batsman killed by lightning

chinaman · #1 January 25, 2004, 07:08 PM

A park cricketer on the New South Wales south coast was killed during a match on Saturday by a lightning strike, Australian Associated Press (AAP) reported.

The 31-year-old batsman collapsed at the crease after lightning struck the pitch at the Artie Smith Oval at Bomaderry, just north of Nowra, AAP said. He was pronounced dead on arrival at hospital.

A 39-year-old man and his 13-year-old son, who were fielding in the game, were also injured. The father had minor burns and his son suffered dizzy spells and shoulder pain.

Reuters

acker · #2 January 25, 2004, 08:19 PM

I heard that on the news this morning , last week a truck was following a police car that got struck by lightning blowing all 4 tyres out from under it.

Hasib · #3 January 30, 2004, 08:26 AM

At school today we had a hail storm. I was in the Library coz i had a spare. The librarian asked us to shut down the computers in case of power failure... one minute after we shut them down the power went...

James90 · #4 January 31, 2004, 06:42 AM

I didn't have power from 4:30pm to 12:30am yesterday...had to listen to tennis on the radio