Two killed, 20 Injured in Car Accident
Two people were killed today and 20 were injured in a multiple vehicle accident on Interstate 790 at 6:45 a.m. Four of the injured have life threatening wounds. The accident began when two tractor-trailers collided, and ended with four tractor-trailers and 14 cars, reports Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department. “One of the tractor-trailers was a tanker hauling diesel fuel; it was very lucky that it didn’t roll over and dump any fuel or catch fire,” Wei said.
All five fire department ambulances responded to the accident, as well as ambulances from four neighboring fire departments. The Memorial Hospital Life Flight helicopter flew two of most injured people to the trauma center in Statesville, 50 miles away. The fire chief, Tony Sullivan, said his firefighters cut the roofs off 3 cars to free the people inside. The scene looked like a war zone, said Sullivan, with bodies in the road, people covered in blood, and emergency workers scurrying to help the injured as sirens wailed in the distance.
Wei states that the police department is continuing the investigation into the accident; the police officers on the scene were having trouble figuring out who drove which vehicles, and who were the passengers. The accident closed the entire highway, causing major traffic for three hours during rush hour on Interstate 690. No reports of when I-790 will open have been given at this time.
Your article is very detailed. I had trouble trying to figure out the proper size for mine and what details were worth mentioning and which were not. It is not as easy as it looks.
ReplyDeleteI agree!! I spent a couple hours working on this article. I'm hoping that I've started learning how to write news, it's very different from the kind of writing I usually do.
ReplyDeleteNicole, I liked your lead, as it laid out the important details right away. As a reader not knowing anything about the story, it may have been confusing seeing Wei's name again a couple of paragraphs down from where he was originially mentioned without introducing him in some way again. I knew who he was and I even had to backtrack and read it again! Good job, though!
ReplyDeleteI like that you actually used a quote regarding the diesel truck that didn't blow up. I saw one of these that just said it out right (like an opinion). It's very clean and concise, and I got a lot of information. Nice work!
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