Hum/176 Week 7 Assignment
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Hum/176 Week 7 Assignment
The breaking news headline I have chosen to discuss is the horrible off-road racing accident in the Mojave Desert of Southern California in which several people lost their lives and several more were injured. The 200 mile race is part of a series held in Soggy Dry Lake Bed near the city of Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, located approximately 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. An off-road truck went sailing off a jump, lost control, and veered into a crowd of spectators at the California 200 on August 14, 2010. "There was dust everywhere, people screaming, people running," David Conklin, a photographer covering the event for off-road magazines, told The Associated Press. As the out of control, off-road designed truck finally came to a stop it was upside down with its oversized tires pointed at the sky. Several spectators came rushing to the vehicle and discovered the carnage of this horrific incident. One lady had a severe head wound and was laying in a pile of blood, and another was trapped underneath the wreckage. About a half a dozen onlookers flipped the truck back to an upright position in an effort to help the individual trapped beneath the wreckage. Unfortunately, spectators had little to no chance of escaping without injury due to the fact that they were standing a mere 10 feet off the track with no significant safety precautions in place. "There were no barriers at all," Jeff Talbott, inland division chief for the California Highway Patrol, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
MSNBC titled the article “8 Dead, dozen hurt as off-road race car plows into crowd”. The information gathered and reported was pretty significant. The reporter interviewed several people and implemented their quotes into the article which helped to paint a pretty disturbing mental picture of the incident. Several of the quotes came from David Conklin, a photographer covering the event for off-road magazines. He told The Associated...
The breaking news headline I have chosen to discuss is the horrible off-road racing accident in the Mojave Desert of Southern California in which several people lost their lives and several more were injured. The 200 mile race is part of a series held in Soggy Dry Lake Bed near the city of Lucerne Valley in the Mojave Desert, located approximately 100 miles northeast of Los Angeles. An off-road truck went sailing off a jump, lost control, and veered into a crowd of spectators at the California 200 on August 14, 2010. "There was dust everywhere, people screaming, people running," David Conklin, a photographer covering the event for off-road magazines, told The Associated Press. As the out of control, off-road designed truck finally came to a stop it was upside down with its oversized tires pointed at the sky. Several spectators came rushing to the vehicle and discovered the carnage of this horrific incident. One lady had a severe head wound and was laying in a pile of blood, and another was trapped underneath the wreckage. About a half a dozen onlookers flipped the truck back to an upright position in an effort to help the individual trapped beneath the wreckage. Unfortunately, spectators had little to no chance of escaping without injury due to the fact that they were standing a mere 10 feet off the track with no significant safety precautions in place. "There were no barriers at all," Jeff Talbott, inland division chief for the California Highway Patrol, told the Riverside Press-Enterprise.
MSNBC titled the article “8 Dead, dozen hurt as off-road race car plows into crowd”. The information gathered and reported was pretty significant. The reporter interviewed several people and implemented their quotes into the article which helped to paint a pretty disturbing mental picture of the incident. Several of the quotes came from David Conklin, a photographer covering the event for off-road magazines. He told The Associated...