Traffic accidents

Electric scooter accidents, fatalities on the rise due to lack of enforcement

Despite the alarming statistics, enforcement against traffic violations committed by scooter riders remains inconsistent and limited.

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 MDA Ambulance

Police officer arrives at crash scene in southern Israel, discovers son was killed

 UNITED HATZALAH conducts a first aid course. While our attention has understandably been focused on security and war-related concerns, we cannot forget that routine safety matters still demand our vigilance, the writer states.

New years resolution: Let's have a safer 2025 - opinion

LIVALL's smart helmet

The helmet that will report accidents automatically


Motorcycle Safety Gear Saves Lives

The Jerusalem Post

Grumpy old man: Road rouge

The fact that traffic accidents kill more people than do wars and terrorist attacks combined. It’s time we faced up to that ugly truth.

TEL AVIV’S congested Ayalon Highway in 2014.

Arab Israeli traffic fatalities increase 24% in 2016

4% increase in deaths for overall population, 74% of traffic fatalities are male.

Cars line a Jerusalem street

The danger of Israel's roads: Who is to blame?

After a decade of a steady decline in traffic fatalities, Israel has experienced a consistent rise for the past five years.

Tel Aviv traffic

Multiple deaths, 18 injured in major car crash in southern Israel

Among the injured one is in critical condition, one mild, and the rest lightly injured.

Traffic accident in South.

Life as Theater

The Jerusalem Post

Barriers to beauty and comfort

While the reason was valid – to protect the public from terrorist acts such as car rammings – the thinking was faulty.

Barriers at a bus stop on Keren Hayesod Street

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

What's shorter than a nano second? Answer - the Israeli drivers fuse at a traffic light!

The Jerusalem Post

Google's Waze to start carpooling pilot program in Israel

The new application, called RideWith, uses Waze's navigation system to learn the routes drivers most frequently take to work and match them up with people looking for a ride in the same direction.

Waze starts pilot program