Sharp-eyed readers will be able to tell which of these local news media reports was written by someone who is not familiar with Omaha:
A construction worker was in critical condition today after a fall from the eastbound bridge of the West Dodge Expressway.
His injuries are considered life-threatening.
The bridge is under construction.
Omaha police and rescue workers were called to the scene, near 111th Street and West Dodge Road, at 6:53 a.m.
The worker was smoothing cement on the deck of the eastbound expressway, backed up and fell 35 feet onto an elevated ramp that leads to Interstate 680, said Officer Andrew Passo, an Omaha police spokesman.
A construction worker was taken to the hospital in critical condition after he fell off the Dodge Expressway this morning.
The accident happened near 111th and Dodge just before 7am. Omaha Police say the man was smoothing concrete on the new eastbound expressway overpass when he fell. The victim fell almost 30 feet onto another bridge. He was taken in critical condition to The Nebraska Medical Center.
A construction worker was critically injured Tuesday morning in a fall from the elevated West Dodge Expressway. The worker fell approximately 20 to 30 feet to another bridge below.
It happened just before 7 a.m. near 111th and Dodge.
Jim Prchal, with Ready Mix Concrete says, "Once they performed CPR he was able to breath on his own. They got there very fast. The people did a great job."
5 comments:
The bridge is under construction? NO WAY!!!
It would appear that the second story is it. It's 111th and "west" dodge "road" - and from the third story it's known as the "west" dodge expressway.
Kind of like those reporters who come here from other cities and refer to streets as fractions: 1-14th and Dodge, 1-68th and West Center Road.
It appears these scripts came from website postings. Do reporters in Omaha post stories to the web or do producers?
>The Nebraska Medical Center.
Shouldn't that be University of Nebraska Medical Center?
Mister NoItAll: I'm from Omaha, and I use "fractions" when referring to those streets, so it's not just those from out of town.
As for trying to determine which story was written by an out-of-towner, I'm perplexed. Technically, the street in question is "West Dodge Road," but few Omahans I know put the "West" in there. The same is true for West Center and West Maple. It's just "168th and Center" or "132nd and Maple." So, help me here fellow bloggers: which story is "wrong"?
Omababe: The official name of the HOSPITAL is "The Nebraska Medical Center." The official name of the SCHOOL is "The University of Nebraska Medical Center." NMC was created through a merger of University Hospital (a part of UNMC) and Clarkson Hospital.
By the way, never refer to "The Nebraska Medical Center" as "NMC" or "the Med Center," otherwise their PR flacks will rain hellfire on you.
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