Monday, March 9, 2015

Amtrak train collides with truck in North Carolina

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/

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