Notes
- the inverted pyramid style is one of the most important story structures for a "hard news story"
- most important information at the top (lede is paragraph number one), as you go down it gets less important
- 5 W's and 1 H (who, what, when, where, why, how)
- lede answers as many of these as possible (how & why sometimes excepted)
- second paragraph: Nut graf
- third paragraph is a direct quote
- fourth paragraph is a factual statement
- fifth paragraph is another direct quote
- repeat until end of story
Car Accident Story
Who: Roger Clementine, John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith, Melba
What: A car accident occurred.
When: Tuesday afternoon at 4:45 pm
Where: First Street and Slaughter Lane.
Why: One of the drivers was unlicensed, speeding, and driving on the wrong side of the road.
How: One of the drivers was on the wrong side of the road and hit another car head-on.
Tuesday at 4:45 on 1st Street and Slaughter Ln. two cars collided with each other, one driven by John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith, 91, and his wife, Melba, 67, and the other driven by Roger Clementine, 13.
The couple was driving their 1989 Yugo Firebelcher at 10 miles an hour while Clementine, an unlicensed and underage driver was driving his uncle's 1948 Studebaker at 60 miles an hour on the wrong side of the road.
"That kid could barely see over the steering wheel and he was plowing down the street like nobody's business. I don't know how that couple survived with the way those cars looked afterwards," eyewitness Mary Simpson said.
Melba underwent minor injuries and was released from the University Medical Center Brackeridge after treatment, but her husband, John Jacob Jingleheimer-Smith, the driver of the Yugo which was totaled in the wreck, suffered major head injuries and is in critical condition.
"I just feel bad for Melba. By the looks of John, he won't last the week. His skull was just about cracked open and his face was covered in cuts and bruises," Melba's sister, Lisa Jones, said.
Roger Clementine, the driver of Studebaker that received a crumpled fender, also suffered minor injuries and was released from the hospital after treatment.
"That boy has been nothing but trouble for me since his parents died. He's my nephew and I love him in my own way, but he's going to be getting serious punishment for this. That poor couple," Clementine's uncle, Rod Clementine, said.
Clementine received three citations from the APD for driving without a license, speeding, and driving in the wrong lane.
"The insolence of that kid was crazy. He didn't even seem sorry," Austin Police Department officer Jay Stevenson said.
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