Dunbar, WVa.: Journalist Hit By Car Continues Live TV Report

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- Shocking video of a reporter in West Virginia getting hit by a car on live television is circulating on social media and has raised concerns regarding the safety of television crews. Jan. 20, 2022. MORE: https://abc7.com/tori-yorgey-west-vir...
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'I just got hit by a car': Journalist goes viral for continuing to report after on-air accident, Daily Kos, 1.21.22

A video of a reporter in West Virginia being hit by a car while doing a live report has gone viral on social media, with many talking about the depths reporters go to get the news out. In the video, the journalist, identified as Tori Yorgey, immediately pulls herself up and continues speaking on camera—despite having just been hit by a car. “Oh my God. I just got by a car, but I’m okay!” Yorgey says as she falls to the ground. After she gets up, she laughingly says, “You know, that’s live TV for ya! It’s all good! I actually got hit by a car in college, too, just like that. I am so glad I’m okay!” After her video went viral, Pittsburgh's Action News 4 team (WTAE-TV) shared that Yorgey would soon be joining their team. In an interview, they spoke to her about the incident.

"I think it was it was all just adrenaline and shock, because, when she had hit me, all I saw for that split second was the car next to my face. And I thought she was running me over, so I was scared in the moment, but I wasn't hurt," Yorgey said. Yorgey, a 25-year-old Philadelphia-area native and Penn State University graduate, was on one of her last assignments for NBC News affiliate WSAZ Wednesday when she was struck by the vehicle. She was reporting from the scene of a water-main break near an apartment complex in Dunbar, West Virginia, when a woman exiting the complex sideswiped her. The entire moment was caught in real-time...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/1/21/2076069/--I-just-got-by-a-car-Journalist-goes-viral-for-continuing-to-report-after-on-air-accident