Today, March 9th,
2015, an Amtrak train collided with a truck crossing the tracks in Halifax
County, North Carolina. The accident is said to have happened around 12:15 PM
and immediately became breaking news around the US, as everyone waited to hear
if there were any fatalities. The trains main car that struck the truck toppled
over, leaving 40 injured. Thankfully all injuries were not life threatening. The
Amtrak train was a daily running train between Charlotte, North Carolina and New York City.
NBC New York News at
6 covered this story at 6:06 PM, making it one of its top stories. However, the story
was short, because they were still trying to figure out the details of accident. The anchor spoke through this story very quickly, with an unconcerned
tone to his voice. This may be because no one was actually killed, but it still
was a dangerous accident that made US news all around the country. Their last
online update was 6 hours ago around 5 PM. I could not find a video that showed
the newscast with this story. All in all, this station did not seem to give as much attention to this story as the two below did.
ABC Eyewitness News
11, which is stationed in Raleigh, North Carolina, held this story with much
more importance. Because it is a local station to where the accident occurred,
the story was updated frequently when new information was discovered. Much more
time seemed to be put into this story than with other news sources, and the
tone of the anchors reading seem much more worried and concerned. The story has
been updating at least once an hour since the accident occurred.
CBS News New York
actually seemed to be covering it very much like the Raleigh Station as well.
They have posted several updates to the story, and with each one go more and
more into detail about what has occurred. Unlike the NBC New York station,
which seems to be very concise about the story whenever it appeared on air (6 and 10PM), CBS
covered this story to the extent of it being local just like ABC News 11 did.
Video: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03/09/amtrak-train-headed-for-nyc-strikes-truck-derails-in-north-carolina/
Video: http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2015/03/09/amtrak-train-headed-for-nyc-strikes-truck-derails-in-north-carolina/
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