Let me expound on this a little further, in a situation like last night, its an unwritten rule that you await the families announcement on the extent of the injuries. Even if you know for a fact, how badly injured someone is or in this case if they are fighting for their life. As media there is a responsibility to understand once something is put in print it could be read by anyone in the family of those affected and its your duty as media to allow that information to flow from the correct channels.
Today I feel horrible about retweeting the initial picture of the car and tweet which just started he had went for a wild ride because of the outcome. I should have thought twice about doing that, but those on the scene should have known the seriousness of the situation and not gotten on there phones and sent the image all over.

Hopefully we can all learn something this, I know I did, and I apologize to anyone who got my tweet.

My thoughts and prayers are with the leffler family today

Pete smith
Staff writer LuvRacin. com

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