Jerusalem – 6 Dead, 15 Injured In An Israeli Bus Accident On Highway 1

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    Medical and Rescue personnel evacuate wounded and killed passengers from the scene where a bus crashed into a truck pulled over on Road 1 near Latrun interchange, on February 14, 2016. Photo by Flash90 Jerusalem – Six people were killed when an Egged bus, line 402, traveling from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak crashed into a truck parked on the side of Highway 1 on Sunday evening, according to Israel Radio.

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    The right side of the bus was destroyed in the accident.

    According to reports by MDA, and additional 15 people were injured in the accident. Nine of those injured were evacuated to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, The Assaf Harofeh Medical Center at Tzrifin and to the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot. One was considered to be in critical condition, one in serious condition, three in moderate condition and one was lightly injured.

    “I have no words. I have never seen anything this shocking before,” said Minister of Health Ya’acov Litzman at the scene.

    Litzman described the scene as something very difficult to see and added that an in-depth investigation would be conducted regarding the incident. .

    Highway 1 was closed to all traffic. The driver of the truck, an Arab resident of eastern Jerusalem aged in his 40s, has been taken in for questioning.



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    BLONDI
    BLONDI
    8 years ago

    Umm. Who was the driver? Arab-Israeli?

    BLONDI
    BLONDI
    8 years ago

    Umm. Who was the driver? Arab-Israeli?

    Bde. May there be no more tragedy.

    8 years ago

    arab truck driver and you call it an accident?

    stamm
    stamm
    8 years ago

    The truck was parked so how could that driver be resp?
    Horrific news!!

    fat36
    fat36
    8 years ago

    People on the bus say the driver was driving

    fat36
    fat36
    8 years ago

    People on the bus say the driver was driving like an idiot. One thing they have to do in Israel is to make extremely tough penalties when it comes reckless driving that’s one place where people drive like complete idiots

    stamm
    stamm
    8 years ago

    they ;have the names on other sites, bde bde o my