Road accidents

Pakistani bus falls into roadside ditch, rescue agency reports 40 killed, 8 injured

The bus was headed to national capital Islamabad from provincial capital Quetta. There were 48 passengers on board, the agency said.

|ByREUTERS
A Pakistani bus upturned in a ditch, July 3, 2026.
A Buddhist monk walks across a road while collecting alms in Bangkok early on April 28, 2026.

Eight monks killed in Thailand after eleven year old boy crashes pickup truck

The victims were part of a group of 34 Buddhist monks and five lay followers undertaking a pilgrimage from a temple in Mukdahan province to another in neighboring Ubon Ratchathani province.

|ByREUTERS
An illustrative image of slow-moving traffic on Israel's Ayalon Highway.

Operation Roaring Lion obscures Israel’s worsening traffic toll, road safety statistics

Excluding March, when Israelis were largely at home due to the war, 157 people were killed this year compared with 147 in the same period last year, an increase of nearly 7%. 

|ByUDI ETZION
Israel Police and Magen David Adom respond to a road incident in which one police officer was injured near Tapuah junction in the West Bank on February 23, 2026.

Palestinian crashes truck into police vehicle in West Bank, police officer injured

The driver of the truck attempted to flee the scene of the incident, police said, but was pursued by backup police forces and arrested along with a passenger in the truck.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

One dead, 7 injured in collision north of Jericho

A man in his 50s and another passenger, in his 30s, were trapped in their overturned car following a head-on collision with a Palestinian vehicle.

APRIL 27, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
The overturned car involved in the head-on collision on Highway 90.

Speed kills in Israel

Indeed, road deaths in Israel rose from 314 in 2009 to 352 in 2010, the year after Transportation Minister Israel Katz increased speed limits once before.

JANUARY 2, 2013ByJPOST EDITORIAL
TRAFFIC accident in Jerusalem generic 370