Writing Basic News Leads

Writing Basic News Leads

1.     Tragic accident between a fire engine and a van leaves one killed and two firemen hospitalized. There was an accident around 7:10 this morning at the intersection of Post Road and Rollins Avenue. Charles Lydon was the driver of the van and who was instantly killed in the accident.

2.     A report from the Highway Loss Data Institute, an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety shows advantages of driving big cars compared to smaller cars. The study by the institute found that small two-door models and many other smaller or midsize cars have the worst injury and repair records compare to bigger cars. Small cars show injury claim frequencies and repair losses at least 30 percent higher than average, while large cars show 40 to 50 percent better-than-average claim records.

3.     Article in the journal of the American Medical Association today shows danger and concerns from eating hot dogs. According to the researcher in the article, “if you were trying to design something that would be perfect to block a child’s airway, it would be a bite-size piece of a hot dog.” It is estimated that in every five days, someone, somewhere in the United States, chokes to death on them.

4.     An error discovered by medical examiners leaves family with even more grief.

 Mrs. Belcuore died of a heart attack last week and she was 51 years old. After an autopsy was performed, the family of Mrs. Belcuore received news that Mrs. Belcuors’s body was still in the morgue and that the body the family buried was that of a woman whose corpse had been unclaimed for a month.