Vehicle safety

Police rescue toddler from locked car in Yavne after mother makes emergency call from Tel Aviv

In August, United Hatzalah warned against the dangers of leaving children inside hot cars after a 5-year-old boy died after he was left inside his family's car in Lod for about two hours.

The floor of the car in which a toddler was trapped is seen in this screenshot from a video of his rescue, in which broken car window glass is seen alongside a child's toy.
An Israel Police car, April 13, 2026; illustrative.

Teen arrested after reportedly sexually assaulting 5-year-old child in Modi'in Illit bomb shelter

Škoda Kodiaq. The base model reduced to NIS 212,000

Škoda partners with Upstream to strengthen cybersecurity across connected vehicles

Lime promotes safe riding on scooters and bikes


Man hit by truck driver in Brooklyn rampage dies of head injury

62-year-old Weng Sor of Las Vegas has been accused of deliberately plowing into pedestrians and bike riders in multiple locations in Monday's rampage through two Brooklyn neighborhoods.

 A New York Police Department vehicle blocks a U-Haul rental vehicle, where according to media reports, a man struck multiple people and the NYPD took the driver into custody, near the Battery tunnel in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, February 13, 2023.

Can interaction between autonomous vehicles and human drivers increase safety on the roads?

The researchers specifically tested drivers’ experiences of steering smoothness and lane-changing ease

The autonomous driving systems installed on a test vehicle that drove in various scenarios in real-time on a physical test surface at the Shlomo Group Arena in Tel Aviv.

Go ahead and park on red-and-white, carefully

What happens when driving school basics get flipped upside-down?

According to the recently-published Central Bureau of Statistics Social Survey for 2019, among Jewish residents of Israel ages 20 and older, about half (49%) think there is sufficient parking in the area where they live

Chrysler recalling 280,000 heavy-duty trucks for fire risks

Threats posed by Ram 2500 and 3500 trucks produced between 2020 and 2022/23 have caused a nationwide recall.

 Jerry Bill, general manager of Stew Hansen Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, poses among a line of Ram trucks in Urbandale

Ford recalls 3.3 million vehicles over rollaway concerns

ord said the recall covers various 2013-2019 Escape, 2013-2018 C-Max, 2013-2016 Fusion, 2013-2021 Transit Connect and 2015-2018 Edge vehicles, NHTSA said Wednesday.

The Ford logo is pictured at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany.

Four dead in fatal car accident in Israel's south

A 65-year-old man, a 40-year-old woman, a 13-year-old girl and a four-year-old boy were all killed in a car accident on Highway 90 on Saturday afternoon.

The scene of a fatal car crash on Highway 90 which left four dead, May 28, 2022

Teen hacker claims ability to control 25 Teslas worldwide

The teenager didn’t reveal the exact details of the software vulnerability, but said it wasn’t within Tesla’s software or infrastructure.

 Motorists drive past Tesla's primary vehicle factory after CEO Elon Musk announced he was defying local officials' restrictions against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) by reopening the plant in Fremont, California, US May 12, 2020.

'It will cost lives,' says child rights group on car seat reform delay

The new regulations, demanding the installation of a safety system against forgetting children in cars, were set to come into effect on August 1 but were postponed to June 2022.

Modi'in Illit infant in car

New system approved to prevent forgetting children in cars

If the system cannot get hold of a parent, it alerts rescue forces to the scene.

The i2/4 BABY button system has been okayed by the Transport Ministry

Two infants die after being forgotten in locked cars, we need a solution

Figures published by B’Terem (Safe Kids Israel), a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting child safety, report 30 fatal cases of children being left in vehicles between 2008 and 2018.

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