Two men trying to rescue victims of a car accident were killed early Friday morning after being hit by a vehicle as they walked across Highway 4 in southern Israel.
In total, thirteen people died in road accidents in Israel in just three days.
The night before, Mrs. Shoshana Glustein and her two daughters – both under the age of 10 – were killed when a bus crashed into a bus stop in Yerushalayim.
Hours earlier on Thursday, a 54-year-old woman and her seven-year-old niece from the Arab city of Qalansawe died when a car and a truck collided at the Be’erotayim Junction along Route 57 near Netanya, central Israel.
That morning, a 40-year-old truck driver also died in a collision with another truck in the Tel Aviv suburb of Cholon.
On Wednesday night, two people died in a car accident on Route 5 in the West Bank when a Palestinian driving a stolen car collided with another car being driven by an Israeli man.
Less than an hour after that, a 25-year-old motorcyclist was killed in a crash involving another motorcycle and a car near the northern Israeli town of Kafr Qara.
A December report from the National Road Safety Authority found that 2021 was the deadliest year on the road since 2017.
According to the report, there have been 213 traffic fatalities in Israel this year as of Thursday morning. In 2021, 361 people died in road accidents, including 113 cyclists, motorcyclists, and e-scooter riders, an increase of 11 percent compared to the previous three years. – i24 News –
We need a comprehensive strategy and plan to make things safer in the holy land.
Every driver in has to be mandated to take road test every year, and no Israeli driver license should be valid for more than 1 year
enforce existing traffic laws