Dashcam captures terrifying moment lightning nearly strikes Utah truck driver

A truck driver on a Utah freeway narrowly missed being struck by lightning amid severe weather earlier this week.

Video of the incident appears to show the moment a lightning strike hit Interstate 84, near the mouth of Weber Canyon, just feet away from a moving truck on Tuesday night, ABC4.com reported.

Motorist Tucker Ralphs captured the video on his dashcam as he was commuting home.

A lightning strike almost hit a moving truck on a Utah freeway earlier this week. (Tucker Ralphs via Storyful)

"Lightning struck the edge of the freeway feet from a truck just ahead of me," he told Storyful, adding that it was "louder than you can imagine, with a very sharp ‘crack’ and ‘boom.’ Super bright, then gone in an instant."

The National Weather Service confirmed to the news outlet that the area experienced a thunderstorm. Data from the agency showed that a lightning strike hit the side of the freeway at about 9 p.m. local time.

About 20 to 30 people are killed by lightning in the United States each year, according to the National Weather Service. (Getty Images)

A lightning strike can be deadly.

A Michigan man, who had just moved to Florida days earlier, died earlier this month when he was apparently struck by lightning while on a walking path.

Witnesses tried performing CPR on Matthew Eric Jenkins, 20, who had moved to Central Florida to begin an internship program at Walt Disney World.