Posted on 09/30/21
| News Source: Times of Israel
The bus driver whose vehicle swerved Wednesday in northern Israel, causing a fatal crash, had allegedly been driving dangerously on purpose in an attempt to keep the group of teenagers he was transporting quiet, a bus passenger claimed Thursday.
Five people were killed and nearly 50 were injured in the collision between the bus and multiple vehicles on Route 89 in the Upper Galilee, near the town of Hurfeish.
The fatalities include a woman and her three children: Moran Ben-Eli, 35, and kids Dekel (15), Liam (11) and Annael (5).
The family father, Reuven Ben-Eli, 36, was seriously injured in the crash and is being treated at Rambam hospital in Haifa, where he gained consciousness on Thursday and received the grim news about the death of his wife and three children.