This is the dramatic moment a lightning bolt sends sparks flying into the air after striking three lorries parked in a lay-by - as the drivers sleep inside. <br /><br />The trucks had stopped for the night in a lorry park on the side of the road in Komi Republic, Russia, when static lightning ripped down from the heavens<br /><br />Truckers who had settled down for the evening and fallen asleep were woken up by the cataclysmic lightning bolt on July 5 at 10.30pm.<br /><br />Two shocked male voices can be heard in the background of the video after the massive lightning strike. One of them reacts in Russian with shock.<br /><br />Dash cam footage shows several parked vehicles as heavy rain begins. Suddenly a lightning bolt strikes three lorries. Sparks fly into the air and streams of black smoke can be seen rising into the night sky from the lorries that were struck.<br /><br />According to the video owner, the drivers of the damaged lorries were inside their vehicles when lightning bolt struck them.<br /><br />He said: "The drivers were sleeping. They were awaken by the strike. They were deeply shocked and could not get out of their vehicles about ten minutes."<br /><br />According to the trucker, the drivers were not injured due to the incident, but the lightning bolt seriously damaged the vehicles.<br /><br />One of them - a Kamaz Russian manufactured vehicle - had an antenna installed on the roof-top of its cabs. The antenna melted after the lightning bolt struck it. Also a hole appeared in the roof-top due to the strike. But the Kamaz driver started his vehicle in the morning and drove away.
