
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 12, 1990                   TAG: 9007120352
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: New River Valley bureau
DATELINE: BLACKSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

LIGHTNING-STRUCK MAN IN HOSPITAL

A Pulaski County man was in guarded condition Wednesday at Montgomery Regional Hospital, a day after he was struck by lightning on the Blacksburg municipal golf course.

David Martin Dalton, 33, of the New River section of Pulaski County, had finished the second hole when it started raining. He was walking back to the clubhouse about 6:15 p.m., Blacksburg Capt. W.H. Brown said.

Lightning struck his umbrella, shattering its metal shaft and knocking Dalton to the ground.

When rescue crews arrived, Dalton was conscious but had no feeling in his feet and legs and was unable to move them, Brown said.

He regained feeling later at the hospital.

Dalton is an employee at Hubbell Lighting Inc. in Christiansburg, Brown said.

by CNB