Car speeds through red light, crashing into opposite vehicle
Footage: a vehicle crosses Ahihud Junction at a red light, injuring three people, including a pedestrian on a nearby traffic island; the "Green Light" survey: Nearly a quarter of the drivers testify to having driven through a red light.
The police reported that the driver is suspected of having been distracted, and the footage confirms that the offending driver did not obey the traffic light for reasons that remain unclear.
Footage from the traffic cameras at the junction shows that the offending vehicle arrived from the direction of Acre, and upon reaching Ahihud junction he sped through a red light. As a result, the vehicle hit another vehicle coming from the direction of the Yavor junction. Later on, the vehicle collides with a traffic island and hits another person—a pedestrian who was waiting on said island. Traffic examiners are continuing to investigate the circumstances of the incident.
Or Yarok (Green Light) published a survey last month about crossing through red lights, noting that "the phenomenon has become a national plague." According to the survey, 93% of the drivers claimed having been witness to at least one such occurrence in the past year. Nearly one in four drivers, 23% of respondents, admitted that they had run through at least one red light in the past year.
Thursday morning, a 22-year-old motorcyclist was killed after ramming an electric pole in the town of Segev Shalom. The MDA team that arrived at the scene rushed him to Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva in a serious condition, only to pronounce his death shortly thereafter. A short time later, a 30-year-old motorcyclist suffered serious injuries after being hit by a truck.
(Translated and edited by N. Elias)
