The local emergency dispatch center says it received no 911 calls about the incident, and police have no record of responding.
The television station’s general manager says the driver was going the wrong way, jumped a curb, and was “completely off of the roadway” when the reporter was hit.
An Occupational Safety and Health Administration spokesperson told Discrepancy Report that the reporter’s television station did not report the incident.
“Employers are only required to report fatalities, in-patient hospitalizations, amputations, and eye loss,” she explained. “This was not required to be reported.”
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, meanwhile, said it captures no data on the risks of solo reporting and its injury statistics don’t differentiate between field journalists and journalists who are not in the field.
“The dangers are an issue that television news managers and station owners should finally take seriously before a journalist is killed doing their job,” Rebecca Aguilar, the SPJ’s president, told Discrepancy Report.