Early this morning on Interstate 95 two tanker trucks, one hauling diesel fuel, collided. The result of the chain-crash is two dead and 20 injured. The total number of vehicles involved is 18, with four separate tractor-trailers and 14 individual cars.
6:45 a.m. is when the initial collision between the fuel truck and another crashed, with other vehicles crashing into the pile up from there on. Sgt. Albert Wei of the police department, when speaking of the diesel truck had this to say: “It was very lucky that it didn’t roll over or dump any fuel or catch fire. The truck part of the tanker was damaged when a car hit it, but the truck driver managed to get it stopped along the side of the road.”
All five of the local ambulances were on the scene to rush those who were seriously injured to the local hospital. Even the “Life Flight” helicopter was called in for the two people in the worst condition, and they were flown to the Statesville Trauma Center fifty miles from the crash. Fire Chief Tony Sullivan said the crash scene looked something like a “war zone, with bodies lying along the road.”
As of print time both the north and south directions of the interstate are closed.
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Kind of difficult to comment on these, since we all did the same thing, but I do like the way you did yours. It looks like you used the inverted pyramid technique, which worked very well with this story. I like how you started yours out with the important information regarding the dead and injured, and then expanded on that.
ReplyDeleteBy the looks of your style, you must have used the inverted pyramid style. I like the way you arranged all of your information. Very well written story.
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