Road accidents

One killed, nine wounded in car accident involving minibus on Highway 98 in northern Israel

The crash follows an accident on Wednesday involving a jeep, which overturned in the West Bank, severely wounding a 17-year-old girl.

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One killed, nine wounded in car accident in northern Israel, August 2, 2026.
A Pakistani bus upturned in a ditch, July 3, 2026.

Pakistani bus falls into roadside ditch, rescue agency reports 40 killed, 8 injured

The bus was headed to national capital Islamabad from provincial capital Quetta. There were 48 passengers on board, the agency said.

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A Buddhist monk walks across a road while collecting alms in Bangkok early on April 28, 2026.

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.

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An illustrative image of slow-moving traffic on Israel's Ayalon Highway.

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

Excluding March, when Israelis were largely at home due to the war, 157 people were killed this year compared with 147 in the same period last year, an increase of nearly 7%. 

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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.

MAY 23, 2024ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
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.

NOVEMBER 30, 2023ByUDI ETZION/WALLA!
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.

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

AUGUST 22, 2023ByMAARIV ONLINE
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.

AUGUST 2, 2023ByREUTERS
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.

JULY 31, 2023ByREUTERS
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.

JUNE 1, 2023ByMAARIV ONLINE, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

APRIL 26, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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. 

APRIL 24, 2023ByMICHAEL STARR
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?

JANUARY 16, 2023BySHOSHANA TITA
Traffic on the Ayalon Highway outside Tel Aviv.