11.   His car struck a tree in Sanford, Maine, and burst into flames.

12.   In his outrage, Boniface struck the tree with his sword, felling it with one blow.

13.   Lightning struck the tree.

14.   She was killed when a car she was driving struck a tree, said Eliot Coleman, a friend who lives on a neighboring farm.

15.   The car careened off the road and into a wooded area near Sunnyside Boulevard, where it struck a tree, police said.

16.   The good-hearted Gunby Jordan left us last year on a mountain curve when his car left the road and struck a tree in broad daylight.

17.   The Toyota in which he was riding flipped and struck a tree in the median of the Squaw Peak.

18.   The vehicle swerved sharply to the right, exiting the pavement and striking a tree.

19.   A woman in Ludwigshafen was hurt when lightning struck a tree she was near.

20.   Anne Arundel County Fire Department spokesman Capt. Allan Graves said the lightning struck a tree under which the victims waited to resume a rugby tournament at Annapolis Middle School.