Ben Higgins is the sports director at KGTV-10, the ABC affiliate in San Diego. He is currently covering the San Diego State University (SDSU) Aztecs in Tuscon, Arizona for their NCAA tournament run. He was probably excited to cover the big story of SDSU winning their first-ever NCAA tournament game Thursday night. However, Higgins probably never expected that he would himself become the big story of the day.
In the first 20 seconds of Ben's live report after the game, you can see a white Chevy SUV backing up towards the camera. As it gets close, Higgins pauses for a brief instant as he hears some noise behind him but has no idea what is coming. Credit goes to an alert camera operator for stepping in and giving a couple of loud taps on the back of the SUV to get it to stop, probably saving Higgins from serious injury. Higgins realizes a second later what just happened and then jumps away with a surprised "Oh!", then the crew quickly cuts to pre-taped footage of the SDSU victory.
After the footage airs, Higgins calmly jokes "Back live here at Tuscon, just barely..." and wraps up his report. The San Diego anchorwoman captures the seriousness of the situation, claiming "you probably could have heard me screaming your name all the way from San Diego to Arizona". That gives Higgins an opportunity to give credit to his camera operator for saving him from certain injury.
Watch video of the the full live segment from KGTV via Youtube here.
Interestingly, you can probably read the license plate of the white SUV if you look closely enough. Since the driver was backing up, you would think that they would have to be looking behind them to make sure they wouldn't hit anything. So if anyone out there knows who was driving that SUV, ask him what he was doing, where he was going and how he didn't see Higgins and his camera crew standing there.
TV reporter almost gets run over during report on San Diego State [The Dagger]
In the first 20 seconds of Ben's live report after the game, you can see a white Chevy SUV backing up towards the camera. As it gets close, Higgins pauses for a brief instant as he hears some noise behind him but has no idea what is coming. Credit goes to an alert camera operator for stepping in and giving a couple of loud taps on the back of the SUV to get it to stop, probably saving Higgins from serious injury. Higgins realizes a second later what just happened and then jumps away with a surprised "Oh!", then the crew quickly cuts to pre-taped footage of the SDSU victory.
After the footage airs, Higgins calmly jokes "Back live here at Tuscon, just barely..." and wraps up his report. The San Diego anchorwoman captures the seriousness of the situation, claiming "you probably could have heard me screaming your name all the way from San Diego to Arizona". That gives Higgins an opportunity to give credit to his camera operator for saving him from certain injury.
Watch video of the the full live segment from KGTV via Youtube here.
Interestingly, you can probably read the license plate of the white SUV if you look closely enough. Since the driver was backing up, you would think that they would have to be looking behind them to make sure they wouldn't hit anything. So if anyone out there knows who was driving that SUV, ask him what he was doing, where he was going and how he didn't see Higgins and his camera crew standing there.
TV reporter almost gets run over during report on San Diego State [The Dagger]
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