KTVU Reporter Nearly Hit By Car

This morning as KTVU reporter Alex Savidge was covering the Monday night train derailment in Alameda County, a car crashed and careened toward him and his photographer. This all happened in Fremont. Viewers of channel 2 could only hear the sudden commotion as footage of the train was being shown on the screen. At first no one knew what happened as audio was immediately cut off after the loud crashes and near profanity. The anchors at the desk told their viewers that they didn’t know what had occurred. The producers could hear that everyone was okay and the anchors relayed the message to the viewers. Shortly after, this follow-up footage was shown to the Bay Area audience:

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