//23-year-old killed in lightning strike in Hamilton County

23-year-old killed in lightning strike in Hamilton County

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By: Associated Press 

WHITE SPRINGS, Fla. (AP) — A 23-year-old woman was killed and several others were injured by a lightning strike in Hamilton County.

Media outlets report that Kourtney Lambert of Branford was at a popular mud-bogging site in north Florida when storms rolled through the area on Saturday afternoon.

Lambert was killed after the lightning bolt hit a tree and then traveled to a nearby trailer.

First Coast News reported that four other people were injured and that one of them was taken to a hospital.

During mud bogging, people run large trucks or off-road vehicles through a pit of mud.


By: WCTV Eyewitness News 
April 7, 2018

HAMILTON CO., Fla. (WCTV) — One person is dead and four others are injured following a lightning strike in Hamilton County Saturday afternoon.

According to National Weather Service storm reports, the strike happened at 2:50 p.m. in White Springs at a mud bog event.

The identities of the people involved in the accident have yet to be confirmed.

(WCTV)