CNN announced that it will air “CNN: Special Investigations Unit – Fatal Journey” about the charter bus accident that killed six people last week and also examine highway safety on Sunday March 11th at 8pm ET.

I have to ask the question: If this accident hadn’t happened in CNN’s backyard in Atlanta and had instead happened in Flagstaff, Arizona, where CNN couldn’t pour all the people on the story that it did when it happened, would the network still have expanded what was for all intents and purposes just another highway incident, albeit with a slightly larger death toll than average, into a full blown documentary?

In the pre-dawn hours of Friday, March 2, a charter bus transporting the Bluffton University baseball team to Sarasota, Florida, tore through a guardrail and plunged 30 feet onto Interstate 75 near downtown Atlanta. The accident took the lives of four players, the bus driver and the bus driver’s wife.

CNN: Special Investigations Unit – Fatal Journey will investigate both the accident and whether highway safety is being compromised by the urgent need for more highway capacity in America’s growing cities. Fatal Journey airs on Saturday, March 10, and Sunday, March 11, at 8 p.m. and 11 p.m. All times Eastern.

CNN investigative correspondent Drew Griffin and CNN: Special Investigations Unit will employ a bus and helicopter to re-enact the fateful journey of the Ohio students.

Speaking to survivors and their families, transportation authorities, rescue workers and traffic experts, CNN will scrutinize the accident, examine lessons learned from similar accident investigations and focus on what can be done to prevent future accidents. CNN also visits with a family struggling to cope with the loss of a son in the accident and listens as surviving players ponder why they survived while others lost their lives.