Traffic accident
Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics
Excluding March, when Israelis were largely at home due to the war, 157 people were killed this year compared with 147 in the same period last year, an increase of nearly 7%.
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
Within two hours: Three bus crashes in southern Israel leave 37 injured, including IDF soldiers
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
WATCH: Israeli firefighters rescue child hanging upside down from bridge
10-year-old boy saved after his father's truck rolls over and lands on a bridge at the roadside at Somech Junction in the North.