A woman has found out just how lucky an escape she had during a thunderstorm in Swindon thanks to her Ring Doorbell.
Leanne Anger was leaving her home on June 14 while a storm was underway in Swindon.
She approached her car and all of a sudden heard a massive bang, before quickly retreating to the inside of her car for safety.
It was in her vehicle that she thought to check her Ring Doorbell footage and saw the flash of light caused by a lightning strike that had struck nearby.
"I'd heard the thunder a couple of minutes before I left the house," she said.
"I knew as soon as I heard the massive bang that the lightning had struck something close, it sounded completely different to thunder, more like an explosion, it felt like it was directly above my house.
"I just wanted to get into the car and that's where I processed what had happened and I checked to see if the doorbell picked anything up to try and make sense of it."
A flash of light shoots across footage of Leanne Anger's Ring Doorbell as lightning strikes nearby (Image: Leanne Anger)
She added: "was just thinking 'get in the car, get in the car' then realised I was in a big chunk of metal ."
Leanne posted the video on social media, where a neighbour revealed that their internet had stopped working from around that moment and was still broken a week later.
"Perhaps it hit their house," Leanne concluded.
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