🗞️ Story file #99
School bus crash kills 2 in Florida
Oct 5, 1 PM ET to Oct 6, 7 PM ET
- 12outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 2 · 2🐘left · center · right
- 1.2 dayson the front pages
- 12front pages at once, at its peak
- 21 sof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
- 9people retold it online
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 5, 1 PM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
- Oct 5, 3 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 6, 12 AM ETpeak: on 12 front pages
- Oct 6, 4 AM ETretold online by 9 people
- Oct 6, 8 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Beautiful 10th grade girl” “horrific”
✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- ABC News (2 wordings): “2 dead, multiple injured in school bus crash with children on board” → “2 dead, multiple injured in school bus crash”
- Fox News (2 wordings): “Florida student killed in rollover school bus crash” → “'Beautiful 10th grade girl' among two dead after school bus horror crash”
- NBC News (2 wordings): “Florida school bus crash kills 2, including 10th-grade student” → “Florida school bus crash kills two, including 10th grade student”
- New York Post (2 wordings): “Nightmare commute Florida student killed in horrific school bus crash caused by wrong-way driver: cops” → “Florida student killed in horrific school bus crash caused by wrong-way driver: cops”
- The Guardian (2 wordings): “Florida high schooler and one other killed in school bus rollover crash” → “Florida high-schooler and one other killed in school bus rollover crash”
Every outlet's first headline (12), left to right by AllSides rating
HuffPost
2 Dead After Florida School Bus Rolls Over In Crash, Police Say Oct 5, 1 PM ET
The Guardian
Florida high schooler and one other killed in school bus rollover crash Oct 5, 3 PM ET
ABC News
2 dead, multiple injured in school bus crash with children on board Oct 5, 11 AM ET- AP 2 people killed, including a student, after Florida school bus rolls over in crash Oct 6, 12 AM ET
CBS News
2 dead, including student, in Central Florida school bus crash, sheriff says Oct 5, 4 PM ET
NBC News
Florida school bus crash kills 2, including 10th-grade student Oct 5, 1 PM ET
The Independent
Two killed including student in 'horrific' Florida school bus rollover crash Oct 5, 12 PM ET
USA Today
Florida school bus crash leaves 2 dead Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Scripps News
U.S. News 2 killed, including student, in Florida school bus crash, sheriff says Scripps News Group Oct 5, 11 AM ET
Tampa Bay Times
Crash flips Polk school bus on its roof. 2 killed, including student Oct 5, 2 PM ET
Fox News
Florida student killed in rollover school bus crash Oct 5, 2 PM ET
New York Post
Nightmare commute Florida student killed in horrific school bus crash caused by wrong-way driver: cops Oct 5, 1 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- HAYRIDE CRASH Fox News, 13 s
- Florida investigation BBC News, 8 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 5, 3:11 PM ET: story 5 of 7
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🧶 Retold online
- A school bus flipped over during a multi-vehicle crash in central Florida, killing two people including a 10th grader and injuring several others. Oct 6: told by 9 people
On Folklore: the latest in full, with their motifs and who is telling them.
🗣️ names in it: Florida Scripps News Group School bus Wrong-way driver
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.