Israel’s News Blog Magazine: Daily Stories Video and PhotosOn Saturday, an Israeli man accidentally ran over his friend’s 3 year old son, apparently in front of the father’s eyes. The child is now hospitalized in critical condition.
This weekend has taken its toll as part of this horrible routine: a 17 year old was killed in a motorcycle accident and another 22 year old was fatally wounded when he was hit by a truck. He died on his birthday. The high death toll of young people and children on the road is alarming.
The first months of 2008 mark high number of road accidents compared with previous years.
“We are all responsible, 45 fatalities a month is unacceptable”, said the transportation minister, Shaul Mofaz, during a convention last month. Mofaz urged judges to severely punish those who willfully break the law. Earlier on Saturday, a youth was seriously injured when her ATV flipped over. It seems that the father, who drove along with his daughter, is a serial traffic offender: police reports that the man has accumulated 23 traffic tickets.
I ask - are these accidents by traffic offenders inevitable? How many young people will join this horrifying statistics before someone acts? Like Bob Dylan sings, “how many deaths will it take till they know that too many people have died?” More people lose their lives on the Israeli roads during a single year than the victims who fallen prey to terror attacks over the last ten years. Traffic offenders must be taken off the roads; they are the real ticking bombs in the Israeli landscape.
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My own daughter was run over by a pickup truck while crossing a well lit street with the green light! Fortunately, she only recveived “minor” injuries, physically that is. The trauma from the experience will remain with her for a long, long time - if not forever.
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