Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Two tractors cause a major accident on Interstate 790

Two tractors collided early this morning on Interstate 790 causing an enormous accident.
Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department said that this accident looks like something from a war zone. Involved were four tractor-trailers and fourteen cars. One tractor was hauling diesel fuel and was very lucky not to roll over or catch on fire. This would have made the accident more-so like a war zone. Tony Sullivan, who is the fire chief, said that in his 18 years of working with the fire department, he has never seen anything like this.
Two people driving cars were killed and twenty were taken to the hospital. Only four out of those twenty, though, were seriously injured. Those four are at a life threatening stage. A
“Life Flight” helicopter from Memorial Hospital was called to come to the scene of the accident to take away the two worst injured civilians.
The police department is not done investigating the accident. The police officers found it hard to figure out what people are from which vehicle and who the drivers were compared to the passengers.
It was said the accident happened in the northbound lanes closed the whole highway. People had to take Interstate 690, which is on the eastern side of the city. This backed up traffic for 3 hours during rush hour traffic.

4 comments:

  1. I really like your lead. It's simple and precise. I think that the 2 in the third paragraph needs to be spelled out? But I'm never good at this AP stuff, so if you got it right, then I got it wrong. You did a great job on your story!

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  2. You have to spell out the numbers under ten. I liked your lead. Good job on your story.

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  3. Good job with the story. It's our first story so I'm sure there's things we can all improve on but you seem to be off to a good start.

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  4. I think you did a good job; however, I think you should have put something more catching into your title, like something about the deaths, which would give it a deeper sense of seriousness.

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