Traffic accident
Eight monks killed in Thailand after eleven year old boy crashes pickup truck
The victims were part of a group of 34 Buddhist monks and five lay followers undertaking a pilgrimage from a temple in Mukdahan province to another in neighboring Ubon Ratchathani province.
Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics
Israel Police issue over 4,000 tickets in crackdown on dangerous, distracted driving
Three killed, four injured in car accident in northern Israel, fourth fatal accident in single day
Teen dies of wounds from Haifa bus crash; dozens hospitalized
Thirty-seven injured people remained hospitalized after Thursday's crash in the Carmel Tunnels.
Traffic accidents
The likelihood of witnessing or being involved in a traffic accident is very high.
Sixty-six people have been killed in traffic accidents since January 1
40-year-old killed riding bike near Kfar Shmaryahu
Grumpy Old Man: On a road to nowhere
Speed kills. So do poor training, lax enforcement, lenient sentences and officials who spin their wheels when it comes to traffic safety.
Court upholds driver’s sentence in deadly 2008 bus accident
Supreme Court rejects appeals against an 8-year jail term for driver Edward Gelfand for accident in which 24 Russian travel agents were killed when a tour bus drove off a cliff on the way to Eilat.
Supreme Court rejects appeal of bus driver's sentence for killing 24
Edward Gelfand was found guilty of manslaughter by the Beersheba District Court in September 2013.
Speed factor
On Sunday it was a bus driver’s recklessness that resulted in the death of six and the injury of a dozen.
Bus driver suspected of tampering with investigation of fatal crash
The police suspect the driver removed the bus’s tachograph – which records the vehicle’s speed- between the time of the accident and when he was arrested.
At least 6 killed in highway 1 collision between bus and tractor trailer
Deputy Commissioner Yaron Be’eri, the commander of the National Traffic Police said that a special investigative team has been launched to determine what exactly took place.
The near miss
