2022 West Bank bus crash: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|2022 lethal car accident in West Bank}}

{{Infobox public transit accident

|date= 6 January 2022

|location=Petzal Junction on [[Highway 90 (Israel–Palestine)|Highway 90]], [[West Bank]]

|country=Palestine

|type=[[Traffic collision]]

|bus=[[Minibus]]

|deaths=8

|injuries=2

|cause=[[Head-on collision]]

{{Coord missing|West Bank}}On 6 January 2022, a traffic collision between a truck and minibus killed eight people and injured two others in the [[West Bank]]. The crash occurred at Petzal Junction on [[Highway 90 (Israel–Palestine)|Highway 90]], which is considered one of Israel's most dangerous highways.<ref name=":02">After 17 more people were killed in one week, in October–November 2018, in traffic accidents on Route 90,{{Cite news|title=After 17 burials, what can prevent tragedy on Israel's 'Road of Death?'|work=The Jerusalem Post {{!}} JPost.com|url=https://www.jpost.com//Israel-News/After-17-burials-what-can-prevent-tragedy-on-Israels-Road-of-Death-571057|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref>

== Events ==

The crash occurred on [[Highway 90 (Israel–Palestine)|Highway 90]] in the [[West Bank]]. The stretch where the crash occurred was a winding section near the [[Israeli settlement]] of [[Petza'el]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2022-01-07|title=Eight Palestinians killed in truck and minibus crash|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-59899505|access-date=2022-01-09}}</ref> Dashcam footage showed a truck crashing into the minibus head-on as the van made a left turn off the highway.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Road crash in West Bank kills 8 Palestinians, injures 2|url=https://news.yahoo.com/road-crash-west-bank-kills-162804520.html|access-date=2022-01-09|website=news.yahoo.com|language=en-GB}}</ref> Both vehicles were Palestinian registered. Police said the victims were teenage labourers from the town of [[Aqraba, Nablus|Aqraba]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=E|first=safa|date=2022-01-08|title=Eight killed in ‘shocking’ West Bank road crash|url=https://mena24tv.com/en/2022/01/08/eight-killed-in-shocking-west-bank-road-crash/|access-date=2022-01-09|website=mena24tV|language=en-US}}</ref>

== Response ==

[[President of the State of Palestine|President of Palestine]] [[Mahmoud Abbas]] declared a day of mourning.<ref name=":0" /> [[Ministry of Defense (Israel)|Defence Minister of Israel]] [[Benny Gantz]] tweeted his condolences to the victims.<ref>{{Cite web|title=tweet from Benny Gantz|url=https://twitter.com/gantzbe/status/1479184934254391296|url-status=live|access-date=2022-01-09|website=Twitter|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220106202035/https://twitter.com/gantzbe/status/1479184934254391296 |archive-date=2022-01-06 }}</ref>

On 7 January, the day after the accident, many Palestinians gathered in [[Aqraba, Nablus|Aqraba]], a Palestinian town in [[Samaria]], for the joint funeral.<ref>{{Cite web|last=عرب ٤٨|date=2022-01-07|title=عقربا: تشييع حاشد لضحايا حادث السير الثمانية|url=https://www.arab48.com/فلسطينيات/أخبار/2022/01/07/عقربا-تشييع-حاشد-لضحايا-حادث-السير-الثمانية|access-date=2022-02-09|website=موقع عرب 48|language=en}}</ref>

== References ==

{{reflist}}

{{Road incidents in 2022}}

[[Category:History of the West Bank]]

[[Category:2022 road incidents|West Bank bus crash]]

[[Category:January 2022 events in Asia|West Bank bus crash]]

[[Category:History of Palestine (region)]]

[[Category:Road incidents in Asia]]

{{Disaster-stub}}

{{StateofPalestine-stub}}