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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists manoeuvred around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera.

In footage broadcast by Israeli television stations on Monday and in a series of photographs on newspaper front pages, motorcyclist Moshe Yisraeli was seen trying to squeeze between two trucks at a junction on a highway near Tel Aviv on Sunday.

He never made it. The camera captured his body lying near the centre of the four-way intersection, his motorcycle metres away on its side.

Some 30 cars and trucks slowed down and then carefully drove around the prone motorcyclist in a stream of traffic that continued for nearly two minutes before a driver stopped his vehicle and approached the body.
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SantaFefan · Posted: Mon May 07, 2007 8:43 pm Post subject:

I wonder if that would happen in certain parts here also...

Excluding the obvious signs of a crash, I'd bet if a "body" laid near a road or in the road, many city drivers would drive past not wanting to get involved nowadays, probably thinking it was a drunk or druggy.

Barkingbiker · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 2313 Location: Lincolnshire

I thought this only happened in Saudi Arabia, as expats never stopped at an accident, unless it was another expat, because if you stopped to help it became your fault as most Saudi's are not insured and they knew all expats were. So even though you wanted to stop & help, you didn't as the consequences could be horrendous.

BB Twisted Evil

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Rachel · Guest

It has happend here in this Country to me, although I wasn't quite dead. I was riding my bike ( pedal variety) From Fareham to Lee-on Solent ( back in the days when I lived nearer to civilisation 1992) I was knocked off my bike by a blue Larda Riva Estate on a busy roundabout. I was laying in the road with a broken leg, broken collar bone and a broken wrist . Car drivers were just beeping at me and driving around me as I lay there. The driver of the Larda stopped about 50 yards up the road. Walked back and dragged me off the road and propped me up against a lamp post. He said, you'll be alright in a few minutes dear and walked off, never to be seen again. Half an hour later, a Vicar stopped to ask if I was ok, when he spotted the bones sticking out of my wrist he called an ambulance. I was in hospital for 5 weeks and off work for 9 months. The driver of the Larda was never caught.

gfloyd · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

Rachel,
and after all that you sign off with "keep smiling" They guy who hit you sounds like a right callous sod.
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Cherskiy · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 10:58 am Post subject:

Minx · Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject:

Whilst driving home four or five years ago, I came across a youth lying half on the pavement, half in the gutter, apparently unconscious. I screeched to a halt and leapt out to see if I could help. As I leaned over him, he and three or four of his mates (who were hiding behind a bush close by) simultaneously leapt up shrieking and waving their arms at me, before dashing off leaving me well and truly spooked.

Whilst I don't condone at all what the Israeli motorists did, I will think twice before I have the same instinctive reaction again.

PJ in Kent · Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 1102 Location: Go on, guess!