Journalism?

This was extracted from an article in a local daily yesterday. The article was a tragic article and reading it brings a sense of sadness to me. But somewhere in the article, these words appeared...

Meanwhile, state traffic chief said the accident occurred when the MPV hit a cow and skidded before colliding with an on-coming trailer.

The cow died.

When I came to that part of the article, I could not help laughing. I just find it so silly. It was such a serious and tragic article and out of no where, the reporter went on to report about the MPV hitting the cow. And his next sentence, in fact, his next paragraph was "The cow died". I think we have some serious issues with journalism and reporting skills.