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Wild drivers and unsuitable cars for use: the deadly abandonment on the roads of Judea and Samaria
The children killed in the accident fell victim to one of the most dangerous phenomena on Judea and Samaria roads - cars that cannot be repaired, sold for pennies and are in use.
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Keenan Cohen
Sunday, 05 December 2021, 09:07 Updated: 09:10
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The circumstances of the accident on Friday, in which the children Halali and Tov Rai were killed and their parents were injured, are not a surprise to those who drive on the roads of Samaria.
Total disregard for the law, wild driving, detours on a white stripe while endangering all road users - all of these are regular experiences on roads shared by Jews and Palestinians.
However, the problem on the roads of Samaria is not limited to non-compliance with the law, or the lack of proper infrastructure and enforcement.
The vehicles used by the Palestinians are one of the most dangerous components in the problematic picture of road safety in the region.
The unusable cars, like the Toyota Corolla that was involved in an accident on Friday, are "good" machines.
The meaning of the name in free translation is "deleted", meaning a vehicle that has been deducted from registration and in fact does not officially exist.
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A new car for only thousands of shekels
The accident near Rantis is perhaps accidental but certainly typical.
The village itself was the focus of several raids in which dozens of such cars were seized, and the passage around this village is known as the entry route of a huge number of cars defined as "total loss" or loss of law by Israeli insurance companies, but out of a combination of greed and unwillingness of the legislature to handle In this failure - are sold by insurance companies to traders on both sides of the Green Line.
Those that can be repaired are returned to the roads and sold while hiding their past to innocent customers, and those that cannot be repaired find their way to the roads in Judea and Samaria under Palestinian licensing.
And to remind you, in some cases these are vehicles that have had serious accidents and then are sometimes "re-soldered" from a number of different vehicles.
You do not need to be a movement examiner or an expert to notice them - body parts that are not aligned properly, some are really distorted, have unbalanced wheels that cause them to travel diagonally and more.
The price is tempting, you can find family from 2016 or 2017, for only a few thousand shekels.
Those "bestsellers" who still carry Israeli plaques are often involved in terrorist acts.
The yellow number allows them to move in a way that does not arouse suspicion, unless it is entered into the police information system.
But even then, it is difficult to understand who is responsible for the sale and "renovation" of the car, since the only tip of the wire is the details of the original owner in Israel - and it has long been unaware of what continues to happen after his car accident.
The body parts are not aligned and the wheels are unbalanced.
Mashtuba in Gush Talmonim (Photo: TPS, Aharon Maltar)
The only bright spots are that both the Israeli police, the Palestinian police and the army are trying to combat this phenomenon and when such cars are caught they are confiscated. However these are only a drop in the ocean, and there is great difficulty in continuing treatment from this stage. The Palestinian police are limited in the number of cars they can store while the cars confiscated by the army are usually towed and left near bases or outposts until they are evacuated. You can see such cars parked near Tapuach Junction and other places. In 2019, about 2,000 "houses" were destroyed by the police, in 2018 the number was about 1,100 and in 2017 about 1,700. But this is a small number compared to tens of thousands of cars that are still moving on the roads and pose an immediate risk to their environmental life.
The terrible accident floods the problem of permanent institutional contempt in the spaces of road accidents.
The chronic shortage of the traffic division in mobility and the focus of existing mobility in enforcing "convenient" offenses, in front of a population that is easy to deal with, are clearly expressed in Samaria.
Even when there is enforcement on these roads, it is usually limited, as the ease with which police officers can be evaded, using hundreds of secondary dirt roads, is great.
When the fleeing vehicle slips into a populated area, the police naturally refrain from entering and completing the arrest.
When arrest is nevertheless made, in many cases the driver does not hold a driver’s license.
The existence of a license also does not indicate the degree of skill and knowledge of the driver.
It is the Palestinian Authority that sets the threshold required for the issuance of a license, and according to the evidence, it is not high.
Former State Comptroller Valid
Former State Comptroller, retired Judge Yosef Shapira, has sharply attacked over the years the lack of coordination between the various law enforcement agencies in Judea and Samaria, which as a result of the disconnect between them thousands of cases of traffic offenses fall between the chairs.
As a result of this situation, a police officer who seeks to find out details about a driver's traffic history is left unanswered.
To these must also be added infrastructure which in the vast majority of cases is far from providing the safety envelope such as separation fences, night lighting and wide edges sufficient to allow deviation from the lane in case of detour on a white stripe.
In addition, the narrow and winding roads mean that one slow truck is enough to produce a long line of cars after it, a line that at one point or another will find the suicide bomber who will go out to bypass a hairpin along its length.
There is no safety casing.
The scene of the accident near Binyamin (Photo: Fire and Rescue)
Gloomy conclusions from the past
The Green Light Association responded by saying: "Every road controlled by the State of Israel also has a responsibility on the part of the state. The roads in Judea and Samaria bring together different populations and especially different vehicles and many roads suffer from unsafe infrastructure that is unforgivable for driver errors. Another road in the country. "
The association emphasizes that there is a large shortage of about 200 traffic vehicles, and hundreds of police officers are also missing.
"The result is a lack of deterrence and apprehension on the part of drivers to commit life-threatening traffic offenses. The police presence on the roads must be increased and focus on those red roads where there is a high incidence of road accidents."
Will this accident be a turning point for the mobilization of the government and the Knesset to stop the lawlessness that allows these cars to return to the road?
Will this catastrophe be the one to draw attention to the lack of governance and lawlessness on the roads of Samaria - if we conclude from past cases, it is very doubtful that this will be the result.
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