A lightning strike can also throw shrapnel.

Back in my misspent youth my girlfriend and I were backpacking in the Cascades. Long story short, a bolt hit a ~2 ft diameter tree not far from us. Big vertical strips of bark and wood about 1-2 inches thick and 3-4 ft long were hurled in all directions. Had one hit either of us they were big and heavy enough to be painful for sure, and possibly to seriously injure. The trail we were on passed close enough to the tree to touch it, had we been a few seconds sooner we would have been right next to the tree when the bolt hit!

The really scary thing was that there was nothing that would have made you expect this tree would be the one to get hit. It was one of hundreds of trees, fairly close together and all about the same height. Since then I've always been paranoid about lightning.

It pays to be lucky, I guess.