Traffic accident

At least 27 injured as bus overturns on Highway 6 near Kiryat Gat

None of the injured were evacuated for further medical treatment, according to the MDA paramedics, cited by Ynet.

A bus overturns on Highway 6 near Kiryat Gat, southern Israel, January 16, 2026.
Police officers load the bodies of the victims who died in a road accident onto a truck at Cumbre de Alaska in Totonicapan, Guatemala, on December 27, 2025.

At least 15 dead, 19 injured in Guatemala bus accident

The scene of a car accident involving a minibus and a private car with injuries that were evacuated by Magen David Adom Ambulances, route 98, southern Golan Heights, September 29, 2025.

Man killed during car accident marks 450th death in 2025, making deadliest year in last two decades

Traffic on Mathura Road, New Delhi, India, July 3, 2025.

Israeli tourist dies in motorcycling incident during cross-country trip through India


For the sin of...

As we intone the litany of sins we atone for in the Yom Kippur service, here are some modern-day transgressions that could be added to the list.

An Israeli boy rides his bike on an empty motorway during Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv

As High Holidays approach, police urge safety and caution among Israeli drivers

Traffic police have not issued any notice of special traffic preparations for the upcoming holidays, however, a spokesman told the 'Post' there would be a public notice in the coming days.

Dizengoff St. traffic

20 killed, dozens injured as trains collide in Italy

The head-on collision between two trains happened on a single stretch of track in countryside between the towns of Corato and Andria, in the southern heel of Italy.

Two passenger trains are seen after a collision in the middle of an olive grove in the southern village of Corato, near Bari, Italy, in this handout picture released by Italian Firefighters July 12, 2016

Teen dies of wounds from Haifa bus crash; dozens hospitalized

Thirty-seven injured people remained hospitalized after Thursday's crash in the Carmel Tunnels.

Bus crash in Haifa

Traffic accidents

The likelihood of witnessing or being involved in a traffic accident is very high.

The scene of a traffic accident on Road 31 near Arad

Sixty-six people have been killed in traffic accidents since January 1

40-year-old killed riding bike near Kfar Shmaryahu

A new road to Jerusalem

Grumpy Old Man: On a road to nowhere

Speed kills. So do poor training, lax enforcement, lenient sentences and officials who spin their wheels when it comes to traffic safety.

Egged bus (illustrative)

Court upholds driver’s sentence in deadly 2008 bus accident

Supreme Court rejects appeals against an 8-year jail term for driver Edward Gelfand for accident in which 24 Russian travel agents were killed when a tour bus drove off a cliff on the way to Eilat.

Ambulance

Supreme Court rejects appeal of bus driver's sentence for killing 24

Edward Gelfand was found guilty of manslaughter by the Beersheba District Court in September 2013.

Airport workers carry one of 24 coffins of Russian tour operators, killed in a bus crash north of the Red Sea resort of Eilat, into a Russian airplane at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv December 18, 2008.

Speed factor

On Sunday it was a bus driver’s recklessness that resulted in the death of six and the injury of a dozen.

Bus accident on Highway 1 on February 14, 2016