A fatal car crash in Southern California went viral for the wrong reason after a broadcast journalist claimed she had attempted contact the dead victim for comment on Sept. 16.
KLTA5 reporter Sara Welch was delivering a live news report about a man, who died from car crash during a police pursuit, when she strangely suggested she had the ability to speak with someone who had passed away.
The unusual remark prompted many social media users to play the video repeatedly to check if they had heard right that Welch had somehow tried to contact the deceased and discovered he was “unavailable for comment.”
The video had been played more than 4.4 million times, liked 95,000 times, and retweeted 23,000 times at the time of this publication.
After realizing Welch really did say it, Ali could not stop himself from laughing.
“When I say I nearly passed out from laughing,” he said on Twitter.
Many news reporters who commented on the Twitter video believed it really would have been the “biggest get in journalism history” if Welch had really managed to speak with the dead.
The Lakewood Shopper Political Reporter Shlomo Schorr appeared disappointed Welch did not even source anonymous comments from the dead driver.
Another person suggested the confusion could have simply been caused by omitting the words the “man’s family members” or “police regarding” the man.
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