MrBallen

At 5.15 p.m.

on June 28, 1980, a 38-year-old man named Robert Davidson drove his motorcycle down Interstate 74 in Acton, Indiana, which is a small community just outside of Indianapolis.

On the back of the motorcycle with her arms wrapped around his waist was Robert's wife.

Her name was Wanda.

The couple was on their way to visit family and they were hoping to get there as soon as possible, not because they wanted to visit, but because there was a big storm rolling in and they were hoping to beat the rain.

In fact, right now, right above them, the sky was turning a dark gray and looked very ominous.

But as Robert nudged his engine to go a little bit faster, these big raindrops began pelting his arms and he knew the skies were opening up and he would have to pull over so he and his wife could put on rain jackets.

And so Robert pulled over to the side of the road, and as soon as he was stopped, Wanda climbed off, and Robert was about to climb off as well and open up the little trunk in the back of the motorcycle to get the rain jackets.

But before he did that, there was this sudden flash of light, and then Robert felt pain all throughout his body, his muscles went totally rigid, and then he crumpled off his bike onto the ground, and everything went black.

Less than five minutes later, an ambulance arrived on the scene and several first responders jumped out, including a woman named Kimberly Cobb.

Now, Kimberly had been briefed up on the situation.

A man and his wife had pulled over on the side of Interstate 74, and the man had been struck by lightning.

And so as she ran up to the couple, she could see Robert was on the ground, he was not moving, his skin was waxy and gray, and his wife was sort of in shock, and she was standing next to him just kind of sobbing uncontrollably.

And Kimberly, she jumped into action.

She jumped down next to Robert, and she felt for a pulse, but he didn't have one.

At this point, Kimberly knew she maybe had a couple of minutes here to basically revive Robert or he was doomed.

And so Kimberly, she worked immediately on stabilizing Robert's spine while one of her team members, one of the other first responders, jumped in and began doing CPR.

And then a third first responder hopped on the ambulance radio and called in an emergency medical helicopter to get here and fly Robert to a hospital as soon as possible.

They quickly got a response from the helicopter crew saying they were en route, but before the crew or any of the first responders could communicate any further over the radio, suddenly, out of nowhere, their ambulance just completely shut down.

Like, completely shut off.