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Lightning kills motorcyclist

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Old man in the mountains
LAWRENCE, Kan. ÔÇö A 45-year-old Lawrence man was killed when he was hit by lightning as he was riding his motorcycle as storms swept through northeast Kansas.

Jefferson County Sheriff Jeff Herrig says the man was with six other motorcyclists who are members of the Bikers Against Child Abuse group. He was hit by lightning about 5 p.m. Saturday on U.S. 24 between Perry and Granville.

A man riding next to the victim was treated and released at a Topeka hospital. The other five members of the group were not injured.

Herrig says the motorcyclists were returning home after visiting some children they had helped in the past in their work against child abuse. He calls the man's death a "tragic, sad thing."
 
Unlike a car which has a metal skin to protest you (it is not the tires), we have no protection on motorcycles. All we can do is get off the road. I am sorry to hear of this death.
 
I thought about this story while riding home from the board meeting, through some thunderstorms.

Very sad story.... and it could happen to any of us.
 
Is this another one, or the same one as in Lightning only needs to strike once a few threads down the list.
If it's the same one, was he struck twice?
 
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