Driver and the two girls in the trunk
Photo: Police
Driver caught with two 9-year-old girls in his trunk
The 57-year-old driver claims the girls asked to sit in the trunk together and that he fashioned makeshift seatbelts for such occasions; he received a NIS 500 ticket and had two points added to his record.
A 57-year-old settler from Bat Ayin was caught Sunday morning in the Jerusalem area driving two nine-year-old girls in the trunk of his car.
Traffic Police officers stationed on the west-bound lane of route 375 noticed hand movements from the trunk through the back window.
When one of the officers signaled the driver to stop, he was shocked to find two girls sitting there.
The driver and the two girls in the trunk (Photo: Police)
He received a NIS 500 ($140) traffic ticket and had two points added to his driving record. His car was also taken off the road.
The trunk of the car, where the girls were sitting (Photo: Police)
The Traffic Police said failure to use seatbelts and car seats significantly raises the severity of a child's injury in an accident.
Since the beginning of 2017, over 1,700 tickets have been given on inter-city roads for seatbelt- and car seat-related offenses, a rise of 38 percent from 2016.
