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This stop for a moment is no less a death trap

The lack of stopping bays, irresponsibility on the part of drivers and too narrow curbs, make the side of the road deadly.

The Youngrays' children are two of the 115 killed in the past five years, who have paid the price of planning problems, saving money and lacking awareness of the danger

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Keenan Cohen

Friday, 18 December 2020, 20:36

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In the video: Serious accidents on the side of the road (Photo: Green light)

The children of the Jungreiss family, their 5-year-old friend Chaim and 7-year-old Elyashiv did not have much of a chance.

The Daihatsu Sirion car in which their uncle was driving hit a truck that was standing on the side of the road, apparently at a fairly high speed.

The encounter between the small car and the massive and tall truck chassis and crate crushed an entire family.

The reasons for the accident are still under investigation.

Was it a distraction, another factor, and perhaps the human tendency to simply “lock in” looking at the vehicle in front of us in the field of vision and straighten behind it?

One thing is for sure, when it is discovered that it is a vehicle that is not traveling, but is standing on the sidelines - it is already too late.

Shimon Shai Siso, 23, from Tel Aviv, did not have much of a chance either.

The driver of the vehicle that deviated from its path that hit him on January 19, 2020 while standing on the sidelines with his scooter, threw him tens of meters away from the point of impact.

Two accidents, one at the beginning of the year and the other at the end with one common denominator - their occurrence on the margins.

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Death on the margins.

Accident near Megadim four months ago near Megadim (Photo: Aharon Baruch Leibowitz)

These two accidents are not the first and unfortunately not the last to occur on the side of the road.

Road 1, where the accident took place on Friday, is one of the busiest in Israel, and quite a few such accidents occur.

The line 402 accident in 2016 in which six passengers were killed and 11 others were injured is one of those remembered.

In the accident, an Egged bus hit a truck that was parked on the side of the road.

The investigative team set up in its wake did mark the driver as the main culprit, but in the perception of risk reduction on the roads, the second question is always "what could have been done to reduce the risk?"

And he pointed expert staff shortages plans traffic arrangements on Route 1 and is more relevant to the accident - the width margin on the right, which was 260 centimeters narrower than the device required under the guidelines, which is not allowed a truck to stand without stand path.

And this accident was just a replay that occurred On Road 85 in the north in 2010 - again a truck parked on the side of the road, again a 240 cm wide sidewalk, narrower than required, again an Egged bus, where five passengers were killed and 50 were injured. And the

list goes on.

August 2013, a truck driver stops at the side of the road on Route 6 in the area of ​​the Sorek Interchange in order to repair a malfunction in the air conditioner.

A metropolitan bus driver hits the truck trailer protruding into the lane, where there were four dead and 30 injured.

"I saw from a distance that I did not see a bay to stop at so I had to park there," the driver repeated in an interview after the accident.

97 accidents, 115 fatalities in the last five years.

The accident in which the brothers were killed in the Jungreiss family home (Photo: Fire and Rescue)

According to data from the National Road Safety Authority, the Green Light Association, which is also supported by data in a document from the Knesset Research Center obtained by Walla!

NEWS, The situation on the fringes should keep sleep out of the eyes of all decision makers and those responsible for road safety.

According to the report that reviewed the 2018-2013 range, 1,040 people were killed in accidents on interurban roads. About 9 percent of them were killed on the margins, almost one in ten killed - on the margins. In the absence of accurate classification and analysis of these accidents, this is only an estimate and probably The actual data are higher. This is also evident in the data obtained from the various factors in which the numbers differ slightly from each other, due to a different counting or labeling of the dead and injured. But even in subsequent years the trend did not moderate - on the contrary. In road accidents on the side of the road - an increase of 50 percent compared to 2018. The year 2020 with a drastic decrease is a consolation, but when you remember the months of closures and the general lack of traffic for not short periods, it is a very unrepresentative consolation.

Number of fatalities and fatalities on the side of the road in the years 2020-2015

• 2015 - 13 accidents, 13 killed

• 2016 - 14 accidents, 19 killed

• 2017 - 22 accidents, 27 killed

• 2018 - 12 accidents, 13 killed

• 2019 - 23 accidents, 29 fatalities

• 2020 - 13 accidents, 14 killed

• In total in the last five years: 97 accidents, 115 fatalities

• Data: National Road Safety Authority

"Every second a person is on the sidelines exposes him to a greater danger" (Photo: Green Light)

According to the Knesset Research Center's report, the two most common scenarios in marginal accidents are stopping and traveling on the sidelines, together they make up 91 of the total fatal accidents on the fringes. This fatality is usually due to two main reasons - injury to people outside the vehicle Vehicle in another stationary vehicle - one way or another there are huge speed gaps.

Erez Kita CEO Green Light: "Every year many road users lose their lives in accidents that happen on the side of the road. The message must be conveyed that the side of the road is for emergency only and every second Exposes him to greater danger. "

The effect of margin width on the degree of danger

Several studies have been conducted over the years regarding the design of the margin and its impact on safety, including at the Ran Naor Institute at the Technion.

In the latter is what the researchers define as a "complex relationship" between the width of the margin and safety.

The complexity is reflected in the fact that the lowest risk of accidents was at a width of three meters or more, or with a narrow edge of up to one meter - precisely the middle part of this range is characterized by an increase in the chance of an accident.

One explanation is that when the curb is narrow, people avoid stopping in it, the speed of travel decreases as well as the severity of the accident if it occurs.

On the other hand, a mid-width edge increases the feeling of security and with it the speed, but this is a width that does not allow a safe stop on the side of the road and this gap leads to lethality in those width widths in the middle range.

Research data from the Bank of Israel show that the addition of one meter to the side of the road reduces road accidents by 15 percent.

"Wide margins must be created to allow safe stopping in an emergency, and at the same time more stopping bays and refreshment corners must be created so that drivers stop in a safe place and not on the side of the road," says Erez Kita of Green Light.

Unfortunately, the policy of planning and execution factors in Israel is the opposite, so for example in 2017 during the tenure of Israel Katz as Minister of Transportation a new idea was implemented to eradicate traffic jams - adding a lane to the road by removing the curb, it happened on Road 1 between Daniel and Latrun Interchange, In the Gan Raveh area, on Road 5, the Coast Road and others.

In other cases it has become a public transport route.

Distribution of fatal accidents on the side of the road between 2013 and 2018

69.1% of accidents occurred due to stopping on the side of the road

22.3% of fatal accidents occurred while driving on the side of the road

7.4% of fatal accidents occurred while walking on the sidewalk

1.1% of fatal accidents occurred while returning from the sidewalk to the lane

Data: Green light and Knesset research center

"Wide margins must be created that will allow safe stopping in an emergency" (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

"Adding school can be very costly," says a source in the field of infrastructure works, who prefers to remain unidentified, "and it's the kind of first plans that are reduced in them."

How expensive?

The rule of thumb is that the cost of paving a lane is about NIS 20 million, but this is in case no additional infrastructure work is required (copying a power line, gas, water, etc.). In addition, there are sometimes expropriations, depositing plans in committees, quarrying and more. " There are currently no school extension projects, "he says," on the contrary, today paving a path is out of a work perception that his school can become a path in the future. "Movements of path designation do not always go smoothly as the person we spoke to tells us," at least in one case, There was a professional who simply refused to carry out the directive to carry out the reduction, he said, 'Your right to decide, I think it is a mistake' and he really was no longer there when it came to fruition. "

One of the responses produced by Netivei Israel led by current CEO Nissim Peretz is 13 The aid mobility, which has increased significantly and provides a solution in the context of marginal accidents, three of these vehicles are on Highway 1, as stated, the most problematic in terms of marginal accidents.

The responsibility for them, the solutions for us

"For five years, in many conversations, even in the Knesset, I speak - it goes in one ear and it creates from the other ear," says Ilan Krief, who lost his son Chai-Ziv and his second daughter-in-law, who was in advanced pregnancy on July 3, 2011. " ".

Ilan travels from Kiryat Malachi to Ashkelon and actually lives in this accident every day.

"Our fringe on the face, anyone stuck on a busy road is a matter of time until it gets hit. I stop next to people standing on the side and warn them."

Ilan says out of pain what the experts say from studies - we need more emergency bays, every few kilometers every 7-10 km.

Had there been one in the vicinity of the place where his son Chai Ziv was killed, he would not have had to stop to repair the puncture in his vehicle at the side of the road and be hit by the truck that passed in the lane.

"You can drive with torn tires for a few more miles until a driver can get to a safe place to fix it - but there is none."

The truck driver from the accident on Route 6 stopped at the side of the road precisely for this reason, adding the Ministry of Transportation’s planned emergency bays and rest are too late for something that should have happened while the road was being paved.

These only came in the planning guidelines file published in 2018, where the recommendations for rest bays were set every 30-40 km.

"There is no one to talk to about this issue, but after a TV interview someone called me and told me that because he heard me and remembered what happened "When he got stuck on the side of the road, he got out of the car, got away from him and called the police," Krieff says. He does not point the finger at the drivers, but rather at the judges who do not create deterrence in punishment. "It's not the margins, it's the judges. "A light punishment," he says, when in his case, the offending driver who injured Chai-Ziv fled the scene and was caught only hours after the accident.

As for dealing with the issue, beyond enforcing life-threatening stops on the road, police urge drivers forced to stop on the road to call 100. "We "Assisting citizens who are on the sidelines is considered an integral part of providing the service to the public. For us, an event received at the traffic control center regarding a vehicle on the sidelines is given priority and the mobile arrives as quickly as possible to assist and provide service," said Superintendent Shahar Gamzo.

"In a lot of conversations, even in the Knesset, I speak - it enters one ear and it creates from the other ear."

Ilan Krief and his wife (Photo: courtesy of the photographers)

Promiscuous margins

According to the regulations, stopping vehicles in the border area is limited to emergencies, malfunctions and rescue of casualties or for the purpose of fulfilling a military function, for the purpose of dropping off and picking up passengers (in a non-fast way) and for development work.

Driving vehicles on the road is permitted for a vehicle that is forced to travel at a low speed due to its load or due to the slope of the road (to prevent traffic disruption), and for public transportation according to a special sign.

Cyclists on intercity roads, as a rule, are supposed to travel only at the curb (if they are paved and free), and pedestrians are allowed to walk on the curb as opposed to the direction of traffic.

Driving on Israeli roads reveals a completely different picture, abandoned vehicles left behind after a breakdown, dropping off and picking up passengers on Road 6 is a common sight especially in the section between Eyal Interchange and Baqa, food stalls on the side of the road where drivers stop almost unhindered, or those who stop to pray and differentiate Needs - All of these are not a rare sight.

Is the answer necessarily enforcement?

Not sure, in 2016 1,592 reports were given for stopping on the side of the road, in 2017 (sloping accidents) 1,820 reports were given and in 2018 (where there was a relative minority of accidents) 738 reports were given.

However, there is also a school that claims that some of the stops are due to compulsion (fatigue, browsing aids or needing services or using a cell phone).

Budgeting issues, lack of reference are two serious enough issues, but not under the control of drivers.

At the dangerous "point of contact" of a situation where a vehicle is forced to stand on the side of the road - everyone agrees - it is the personal responsibility to prevent a disaster, which is reduced to the driver taking the right actions to warn other road users, secure himself and call police assistance.

A glitch on the way?

What to do

• Avoid stopping at the edge of a highway as much as possible, including in case of exchanging details

• As long as it is possible to continue driving, even slowly, stopping at the curb should also be avoided at the cost of damage to the car

• Did you have to stop?

  Turn on emergency lights, put on a glow vest, get out of the vehicles and stand beyond the guardrail

• Call the police, report the location and nature of the stop, a mobile will arrive to secure and manage the incident

The Director General of the RALBAD, Brigadier General (Res.) Racheli Tevet-Wiesel:

"Preventing accidents on the side of the road depends first and foremost on us drivers, since any stop on the road poses a danger to car passengers and other road users and therefore stop on the road only in emergencies You can continue the trip, and not to use the cell phone, check the Wise, vacate and the like.

Invites drivers and passengers to enter the Ask Ralbad website and learn more about safe behavior on the road.

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