Road accidents

Invisible costs of trauma and post-trauma: The economic plight Israel faces - opinion

National trauma is not a private matter; it spills into every sphere: our relationships, classrooms, clinics, and even the roads, and all of this carries a significant economic cost.

TRAFFIC IS HEAVY on the Ayalon highway in Tel Aviv earlier this month. 2024 ended with 439 road fatalities, an unusual jump in a year with less traffic, the writer notes.
Landslides triggered by heavy rain in Vietnam have killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen, disaster agency officials said on November 17, as the country's flood-hit central belt endured relentless precipitation.

Landslide kills 6 bus passengers in central Vietnam

 View of Ecuador with the Ecuadorian flag

Deadly bus crash in Ecuador's Simiatug leaves 12 dead, 10 injured

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

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


How can technology save cyclists' lives on Israeli roads?

Israeli roads have become increasingly dangerous in recent years. The danger is not only for vehicle users but also for cyclists riding alongside them. Here’s how to ensure your safety on the road.

 GARMIN ISRAEL

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

Autotalks launches a new V2X product series designed to protect cyclists and e-scooter riders from traffic accidents.

 Autotalks

Autotalks launches new V2X product line

New technology to protect cyclists and e-scooter riders from road accidents. The TEKTON3-BIKE chipset simplifies V2X integration, reducing development time and costs.


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.