iPod Saves Her Life
Well, lucky strike?
A teenager hit by lightning escaped death as she was holding hands with her boyfriend.
Sophie Frost and Mason Billington, both 14, were sheltering under a tree on playing fields during storms when the bolt struck her iPod knocking them out.
But an expert in lightning injuries said the potentially fatal shock was reduced because it was shared out between them.
Sophie, now nicknamed Sparky by pals, said: “I don’t remember the incident, I just remember looking at my watch thinking I have to ring my mum and then being dragged into the road.”
Dr Mary Ann Cooper, of the University of Illinois, said the effect of the lightning had been diluted but added: “No one will ever know if one had 70% and the other 30% or both 50%. It is too complicated.”
A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “They are very, very lucky indeed. It is fortunate their injuries were not more serious.”
