The car accident near Lehavim intersection (photo: Kivi Ash, Benny Ben Simon, Zohar Guetta, MDA spokesmen; editing: Matan Haddad; narration: Liron Bari)
Eight years in prison was sentenced today (Sunday) to the truck driver, Salem Abu Anam, who was convicted of causing the death of eight women through negligence, after he was involved in an accident with a bus in which they were killed in 2015 on a road in the south.
In addition, Abu Anam's license was revoked for 20 years.
Besides the eight women who were killed, dozens were injured in the accident.
"The defendant's negligent driving caused a serious disaster. The lives of eight innocent women, who in all were traveling by bus back to their home, were brutally cut short due to the defendant's unusually serious negligence, who drove a truck in blatant violation of the duty of increased caution imposed on him," said an editor The law on behalf of the South District Attorney's Office."
The scene of the accident is near the blades.
February 2015 (photo: Walla! system, Amir Buchbocht)
The scene of the accident is near the blades.
February 2015 (Photo: MDA)
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The investigation of the accident revealed that a preliminary investigation by the police revealed that the bus traveling on Route 31 near Lahavim was full of passengers, residents of the Bedouin diaspora in the Negev, who had returned from praying at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Then the truck, driven by Abu Anam, came out in front of him from the opposite lane, and the bus hit the tractor that was on it.
It also emerged from the investigation that the tractor protruded from the truck contrary to what is allowed.
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