Footage from a WSAZ Information report in West Virginia has gone viral this week after a reporter stay on the scene of a water major breakage acquired hit by a automobile throughout her report. Fortuitously, the reporter, Tori Yorgey, was capable of bounce again up and rapidly guarantee the viewing public that she was alright earlier than ending her report.

After being requested by the driving force of the automobile if she was okay, Yorgey responds “I’m okay, yeah, you recognize that’s stay TV for you. It’s all good I really acquired hit by a automobile in faculty, too, similar to that. I’m so glad I’m okay.”

Though Yorgey insists a number of instances all through the report that she’s alright, the information anchor to whom she was talking, Tim Irr, took to Twitter following the incident to say that Yorgey did go to the emergency room following the hit, which pushed her off her ft and into her digital camera, which she was apparently working herself.

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Fortunately, Tori says she’s okay. However she’s headed to the ER to be checked out simply in case.

— Tim Irr (@WSAZirr) January 20, 2022

“You understand what, it’s a one-woman band,” mentioned Yorgey as she picked the digital camera off the bottom. “Clearly, we would want to maneuver the digital camera over somewhat bit.”

On air, they speculate that the incident might have been brought on by the driving force turning into distracted by the emergency autos within the space. Journalists have publicly commented on the incident, although, blaming information stations that ship only one particular person out to cowl a narrative it beforehand took a number of to movie.

Many have additionally criticized Irr’s response to the occasion, although he mentioned on Twitter that he solely had a small monitor in his peripheral imaginative and prescient exhibiting Yorgey’s feed and was relying primarily on audio cues to determine what occurred.

As Yorgey mentioned within the report, this incident occurred throughout her final week on the job. Beginning subsequent month, she’ll be becoming a member of ABC affiliate WTAE in Pittsburgh. Hopefully, she gained’t must be hit a 3rd time sooner or later…

“We’re good, Tim.” pic.twitter.com/9kn2YElDLK

— Timothy Burke (@bubbaprog) January 20, 2022