Lightning strikes road in Walton County causing car crash
WALTON COUNTY, Fla.– Walton County Fire crews responded to a crash on Monday morning.
Wayne and Cheryl Wilkerson were traveling from Kentucky to Cape Coral on Interstate 10.
“We’d been doing like 40 because it’s been raining so hard,” said Wayne Wilkerson.
Lightning struck the road in front of a car, causing a chunk to blast through the windshield. First responders described the the hole in the highway as ‘dinner plate sized’.
“The blacktop in front of us and it just exploded and shot it through our truck,” said the Wilkersons.
The couple said they thought a bomb...