Road accidents

Eight monks killed in Thailand after eleven year old boy crashes pickup truck

The victims were part of a group of 34 Buddhist monks and five lay followers undertaking a pilgrimage from a temple in Mukdahan province to another in neighboring Ubon Ratchathani province.

A Buddhist monk walks across a road while collecting alms in Bangkok early on April 28, 2026.
 An illustrative image of slow-moving traffic on Israel's Ayalon Highway.

Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics

Israel Police and Magen David Adom respond to a road incident in which one police officer was injured near Tapuah junction in the West Bank on February 23, 2026.

Palestinian crashes truck into police vehicle in West Bank, police officer injured

 Members of the Ethiopian community and activists block the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv during a protest for justice to 4-year-old Rafael Adana, who was run over and killed in a car accident in Netanya, in Tel Aviv, August 23, 2023

Court sentences driver in Rafael Edna hit-and-run case to one year in prison, bans her from driving


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.

How can we cope with road rage?

In Israel during the past year, police report, road rage incidents have increased at an alarmingly high rate to almost 1,400 cases, compared to just over 1,100 in 2020.

 Police at the scene where a man killed after being stabbed during a road rage incident in Holon, on November 23, 2022