Miamiherald.com and SunSentinel.com covered a breaking news story about a Coconut Creek woman who died early Wednesday after losing control of her pick-up truck on I-95. Though both media outlets recount the accident in great detail, I preferred the Sun Sentinel's headline, "Woman killed in I-95 wreck south of Cypress Creek Road identified" vs. the Herald's "Coconut Creek woman dies in I-95 crash", as it is more detailed and establishes a sense of closure. The Sun Sentinel's lede is also more effective, since it is jam-packed with important information. I noticed, however, that neither the Sun Sentinel nor the Miami Herald placed the (police) attribute in the lede's opening sentence when describing the accident.
It was interesting that SunSentinel.com featured a related links package at the bottom of the page, which included a photo gallery of vivid/graphic I-95 accident scenes called, "What a Wreck." Though this photo gallery didn't exactly hurt this story, it didn't exactly add anything to it either. I got the distinct impression that the Sun Sentinel reuses it whenever there is a story regarding highway crashes.
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You are right about the 'wreck' gallery... and the Alicia Silverstone video... both examples of websites trying to capitalize on things readers like (celebrity, crashes) to look at.
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