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Off-road drivers continue to cause damage to fields and property: "endangering themselves and their travelers" - Walla! news

2021-02-08T20:58:13.728Z


Many farmers suffer from the damage of SUVs, which trample and damage crops. Police, along with Border Patrol fighters, the Nature and Parks Authority and Megiddo Regional Council, have launched an enforcement operation in an attempt to eradicate the phenomenon. 31 reports were distributed, and among the drivers were caught two boys without a license


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Off-road drivers continue to cause damage to fields and property: "endangering themselves and hikers"

Many farmers suffer from the damage of SUVs, which trample and damage crops.

Police, along with Border Patrol fighters, the Nature and Parks Authority and Megiddo Regional Council, have launched an enforcement operation in an attempt to eradicate the phenomenon.

31 reports were distributed, and among the drivers were caught two boys without a license

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  • Israel Police

  • ATV

  • Agricultural crime

Eli Ashkenazi

Monday, 08 February 2021, 22:09

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In the video: The damage that motor vehicle drivers cause to the fields (police spokeswoman)

SUV drivers are causing damage to fields in the open areas in the north, and following the phenomenon, an enforcement operation was carried out last Saturday in an attempt to eradicate the phenomenon.

The operation was conducted by the Israel Police and the Border Police, in cooperation with the Nature and Parks Authority, the Megiddo Regional Council, the Green Patrol and the New Guard.

The operation was aimed at drivers who drive SUVs and enter agricultural areas, drive wildly, harm agricultural crops, and in their driving endanger even the travelers and themselves.



The activity focused on the phenomenon of driving in agricultural fields in SUVs of various types - ATVs, motorcycles, jeeps and RZR.

Police said that "the drivers, especially extreme enthusiasts, enter cultivated agricultural areas while driving wild, destroying crops, digging holes in the ground and destroying the vegetation, cutting fences and breaking gates in order to find a route they have not yet traveled."

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The police operation was aimed at drivers who drive SUVs and enter agricultural areas (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

Farmers in many places in the north are suffering from the phenomenon.

According to Saar Ramon from Kibbutz Gilad, "drivers enter the fields and trample them, drive wildly and endanger travelers and cause heavy damage to property."

Recently, about 50 meters of metal fence have been cut around a water reservoir, and people are coming to a place that has become a hiking site.

Ramon noted that about a year ago a hiker had drowned in the water reservoir and it was farmers who saved him, but he expressed his fear of a disaster that would happen due to the destruction caused to the hikers.



In addition, SUV drivers were recently seen driving on the monument in the Megiddo Forest that was erected in memory of the victims of the kibbutz movement.

Residents of the area also warn of the danger that hikers or athletes running in the open will be hit by one of the drivers.

About a year ago, a soldier on vacation was moderately injured while running in the field near Megiddo and was run over by an ATV driver, who later fled.

"Drivers enter the fields and trample them, drive wildly and endanger travelers" (Photo: Official website, "Megiddo Security")

"The same drivers, for the most part, drive without driving licenses, without overturning arches on ATVs, and lift a wheel while crossing a main road. Beyond the severe damage they cause to the agricultural fields in their bullying driving, they endanger themselves and the rest of the hikers."



As part of the enforcement operation, about 150 SUVs were inspected, and 31 traffic reports were given to drivers who drove in a bullying and life-threatening manner.

Two boys aged 15-13 were caught after never getting a license and driving an ATV and RZR.



Also, two SUVs were disabled and towed to a police facility and three drivers were banned from using the SUV for 30 days.

During the operation, a police skimmer operated at the scene documented offenses of drivers, and later traffic reports will be sent to the same offenders.

There is a decrease in the extent of agricultural crime in Israel.

Damage in the field (Photo: official website, "Megiddo Security")

Police said that this activity, together with other activities and in parallel with the widespread deployment of Border Police officers in the rural sector while combining intelligence and technological means, leads to further declines in agricultural crime figures.

These are declines that reinforce the trend that has continued for many years, of significant declines in the volume of agricultural crime in Israel.

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