Although survivors frequently talk about entry and exit wounds its difficult to figure out precisely what path the lightning takes says Mary Ann Cooper a retired emergency medicine doctor and longtime lightning researcherThe visible evidence of lightnings wrath is more reflective of the type of clothing a survivor has on the coins they.

How does lightning kill you. People are most commonly struck by what are called ground currents. While direct strikes can be fatal different types of lightning strikes can kill including less expected ways like a side flash or a streamer. We mentioned before your chances of being struck are 1 in 3000 if you live for 80 years.

Because the ground current affects a much larger area than the other causes of lightning casualties the ground current causes the most lightning deaths and injuriesGround current also kills many farm animals. Once indoors stay off corded. This explains why lightning kills.

When an eruption occurs earth and ash are thrown into the air in a giant plume colliding to create an electrical charge. Some injuries from lightning strikes are not realized right away and in some cases not for many years which can be even more traumatic to a person. Lightning rarely hits people directly but such strikes are almost always fatal.

Burns arent the only way lightning will hurt you. It is perfectly safe to touch a lightning victim to give them first aid. A direct strike is not the only way lightning can kill you.

Typically the lightning enters the body at the contact point closest to the lightning strike travels through the cardiovascular andor nervous systems and exits the body at the contact point farthest from the lightning. The side effects of being struck by lightning. A direct hit from a lightning bolt can certainly kill a person but sometimes it does not.

The electric current has to pass through your body to do you any harm and the conducting sea water will carry a. Youve probably heard that lighting which strikes a building can get into wiring or water pipes to kill someone talking on a phone with a cord or who is taking a shower. Just as lightning can strike miles ahead of a storm lightning can also strike behind it.