Tuesday, May 27, 2008

SO, where's the rest?

Last Friday there was a brief story in the Daily News about two accidents that required MedFlights for the victims. This is the entire story:

The holiday weekend got off to a dangerous start yesterday when two major accidents snarled traffic and left drivers with serious injuries.

A black sedan drove off the road and hit a tree in the area of 900 Main St. in West Newbury around 2:30 p.m. yesterday. One unidentified male passenger, who according to police is a local teacher, was taken by MedFlight to a Boston hospital. As of yesterday evening, police would not release any details of the crash or the name of the victim.

At 4 p.m., State Police as well as Rowley and Georgetown police responded to a serious accident on the on-ramp to Interstate 95 from Route 133 in Rowley.

The vehicle overturned multiple times, and the driver was ejected from the vehicle. The victim was taken by MedFlight to an area hospital. State Police did not return phone calls seeking additional information.

OK ... so a local teacher (which community?) and at least one other person were apparently injured seriously enough to have to be flown out of the area for treatment ... so where is the follow-up?

I've been scouring the online edition of the DN and haven't seen any, yet. My mother (who lives in Gloucester), however, told me yesterday she saw video of the accident at the on ramp, on the TV news. According to her, there were no serious injuries.

It would be nice, especially for the people who wrote comments of concern (and some of who witnessed the accident) if there were some follow-up. The following was posted yesterday, on the DN website:

I have been anxiously looking for word on the identities of the 2 victims, especially the "local teacher" involved in this horrible crash. Anyone know?

But, alas .... the term "follow-up" has no meaning for our daily.

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