Road accidents

Coming soon: Your child will remind you to buckle up and not to text

A NIS 2.5 million donation from the importer of Renault, Nissan, Chery, and XPeng will fund an Or Yarok program training elementary students to serve as "Child Escorts."

 Your child will remind you to buckle up and not to text
 GARMIN ISRAEL

How can technology save cyclists' lives on Israeli roads?

 Autotalks

Is this the product that will protect cyclists and e-scooter riders?

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Autotalks launches new V2X product line


Silent but perilous: Pedestrians more likely to be hit by hybrid or electric cars

Pedestrians may be twice as likely to be hit by an electric or a hybrid car as those powered by petrol or diesel, wrote Phil Edwards, Siobhan Moore, and Craig Higgins of the London School of Hygiene.

 A Peugeot 3008 plug-in hybrid electric vehicle of the car rental company OK Mobility, is parked at a street, as it charges with a cable connected to a domestic plug inside a tourist apartment, in Ronda, Spain, May 2, 2024.

Israelis are getting guns. Non-terror-related homicides could rise, say experts

In the past month alone, 18,000 guns have been purchased.

 The driver and passenger of the Ford pounce on the driver of the red Nissan, who immediately pulls out a weapon

Bus with children aboard overturned near Beit Shemesh, several injured

Shaare Zedek Medical Center confirmed the admittance of eight injured children in the trauma room.

 Scenes of the overturned bus near Beit Shemesh, September 27, 2023

Protesters block Ayalon road after the death of an Ethiopian child

Hundreds of protestors blocked Ayalon road on Monday, in response to authorities' refusal to charge a driver who killed a young Ethiopian boy in a hit-and-run accident.

 Members of the Jewish Ethiopian community and overs block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, during a protest demand justice for to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, August 21, 2023.

One killed, 56 injured as bus rolls over near Grand Canyon

One person was killed and 56 were injured in a bus accident near the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

 Three buses parked on a ledge overlooking the Grand Canyon in Arizona, US.

Several injured when tourist bus plunged off mountain road in north Spain

A bus filled with tourists plunged off a mountain road in Spain on Monday, leaving 10 people hospitalized.

Emergency services members attend to an injured person after a tourist bus carrying 48 people, including children, crashed on a road in Cangas de Onis, in the northern region of Asturias, Spain, July 31, 2023.

Motorcyclist, 60, killed after being struck by car fleeing from police

A 60-year-old motorcyclist was killed this evening by being hit by a suspect vehicle that fled from police in Holon. MDA pronounced him dead at the scene.

 The scene of a fatal motorcycle accident in Holon

Infant killed, several others injured in Israeli car crash

A one-year-old child was killed in the car crash on Israel's Highway 40. Six others were hospitalized, two of whom are in serious condition.

 The scene of a serious car crash on Highway 40 in Israel's South that resulted in multiple casualties, on April 26, 2023.

Drunk driver who killed boy on Yom Kippur given 10 years prison

The boy was set to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah two months before he was killed. 

 The aftermath of the accident at Urim Junction on Highway 234.

How is Israel one of the happiest and angriest countries?

How does one explain the huge gap between an intolerable existence full of tension in Israel of 2022 and the OECD’s ranking of Israel as one of the top ten happiest countries in the world?

 Traffic on the Ayalon Highway outside Tel Aviv.

3 Israeli teenagers killed, 2 others injured in car crash in Galilee

A preliminary investigation has indicated that the crash occurred because one of the cars made a U-turn on an unlit section of the road, ultimately colliding with another car.

 The sight of a car crash in Haifa, Israel, that injured two people, on January 13, 2023.