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'4-year-old sued for bike crash' story still has errors
The story misstates the age of a child involved in the incident; he was five, not four. It also misstates the circumstances of the elderly woman's death; she died three months after the incident (not three weeks after it) reportedly from unrelated causes.
Supporting Information:
A report in the New York Times originally had the same errors in it, as detailed in the appended correction notices:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/29/nyregion/29young.html
(The mistakes were also noted in a column by the NYT's public editor: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/opinion/14pubed.html)
Response
Mark Follman has contacted CBS News and received the following response.
Awaiting a response. (Contacted today using CBS News.com's email form.)
Updated: See below for response from CBS.
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We received a response by email:
The inaccuracies reported in this bug - http://mediabugs.org/bugs/4-year-old-sued-for-bike-crash-story-still-has-errors - have been corrected. Thank you very much for pointing them out.
Sincerely,
Kevin Hayes
Managing Editor - Crimesider/CBSNews.com