The Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court extends by three days the arrest the detention of a truck driver who is suspected of causing another deadly accident on Route 90, in which six people died yesterday.
In that fatal crash, a minibus was reportedly shuttling a group of East Jerusalem Palestinian men in their thirties to their workplace when it collided with the truck.
The victims of the crash were identified as brothers Lutfi and Rajai Zahdi from Wadi Joz; Ala’a Qarash from the Old City of Jerusalem; Ahmad al-Ayoubi from Za’im; Majd Asila from Kafr Akab; and Majd Samara from Kafr Akab.
Video footage from the scene appeared to show the truck veering into the opposite lane, at which point the minivan, in an attempt to evade it, swerves and crashes into it.
The driver has claimed in court that the accident was the minibus driver’s fault because he swerved into the path of his truck.
A police investigator has told the court that the driver has kept silent during his investigation and that he apparently tried to take the memory card out of the dashcam fitted in the truck.
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