Howard Caldwell, Tracey Horth and Clyde Lee deliver the news, with Bob McLain on weather and Ed Sorensen sports. The day's top story is the crash of a church bus in a construction zone on I-65 which injured 20 people. Sorensen is live at the US Clay Courts at the RCA Tennis Center in Indy. (Ken Owen)
This video is a WRTV Channel 6 News 5 p.m. newscast from 1985. Howard Caldwell hosts and Sy Jenkins reports the day’s top story of a bus crash on I 65 injuring 20 people. Sy Jenkins reports live at the US Clay Courts in Indianapolis. Bob McClain is on weather. Other reporters include Tracey Horth, Clyde Lee, Derrick Thomas, Norman Cox, Linda Lupear, Gerry Dick, Steve Shepard, Ed Sorenson, Ben Morritson, and Greg Todd.
Bus from an Ohio church crashed.
0:00 Howard Caldwell intro
0:36 song plays over title
0:50 Howard Caldwell intro on bus accident
*1:13 Sy Jenkins voice over. Scene of bus accident and interview with victims, drivers
*2:54 Tracey Horth voice over. Shots at the hospital
*5:11 Sy Jenkins live in helicopter over interstate. Construction barriers causing accidents
6:00 Interview of highway patrol
6:50 Clyde Lee on I 70 East project
*7:20 Derrick Thomas segment on juvenile detention center
9:99 Tracey Horth segment on Halfway House
10:02 Norman Cox on General Motors Saturn plant
12:20 fades to commercial
*12:21 Linda Lupear reports on struggling Greencastle fire department
*14:43 Gerry Dick reports live on small post offices
18:49 Howard Caldwell on tropical storm Bob
19:17 meteorologist Bob McClain
20:57 drug raids, bank robber
21:56 inflation rates, Toyota will build in U.S.
22:45 Steve Shepard reports on President Reagan recovering from surgery
24:54 Ed Sorenson live at US Clay Courts in Indianapolis
26:42 Indianapolis Colts practice. Orlando Brown, Mark Brooks
*28:13 New York Press Conference US Heavyweight Champ. Larry Holmes and Michael Spinks
28:58 back to studio. Commercial break
29:29 Ben Morritson reports on American Housing Corporation
31:50 Clyde Lee on Citizen Gas
32:43 Bob McClain weather forecast
37:35 Ed Sorenson back at Clay Courts
40:23 Greg Todd Hoosier Profile segment on Indiana artist Evelyn Mess Daily
43:10 news recap
44:00 music, fade out
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Sy Jenkins reports live from a helicopter over I 65 after a bus accident injuring 20.
5:11 IC: “Hi, we’re over…”
6:51 OC: “...alright Sky thank you.”