1Department of Forensic Medicine, UFHT Medical College Haldwani.
2Department of Anatomy, UFHT Medical College Haldwani.
An electrical discharge between a negatively charged thunder cloud and a positively charged object on the earth causes lightening. A single flash which is of an enormous potential last about 1/1000 of seconds. The effect of lightening estimated about 100–1000 million volts with current of about 2000amperes. The effect of lightening on the human body depends on number of feature such as intensity of the current, the time it spend passing through the body and the pathway involved. Dry skin and dry clothes are bad conductors where as wet clothes and wet skins are good conductors.
