The video recorder of one of the eyewitnesses captured the moment when the lightning hit the car.
The incident took place on Sunday afternoon, September 15, during a downpour that flooded the streets of the city, and thunder and lightning frightened the townspeople. Perhaps most of all, the owners of the Toyota RAV4 crossover were scared - their car was struck by lightning when they were driving along the Berdskoe highway.
The video of the incident was published in the Novosibirsk Incident group on the VKontakte social network. Lightning struck the rear of the car, illuminating everything around it with a bright flash. Surprisingly, the car not only did not catch fire, but judging by the working headlights, its electronics also remained in order.
- It was lightning hitting my relative's car. All are intact. Lightning hit the trunk, - wrote a relative of car owners Eugene in the comments to the video.
In confirmation of his words, he attaches a photo of the crossover after the incident: his rear window cracked, and the plastic that was in the place of the lightning strike melted.
I am glad that the car turned out to be so reliable that it easily survived a direct lightning strike without harming those sitting inside.
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NADEZHDA YARKOVA, VLADIMIR PTASHNIK