[RBS] Accident on Nahal Tze'elim

[Yehuda and Rebecca Poch]

20 minutes ago, Friday afternoon, a car was traveling from the RBS-A 
shopping center down Tze'elim toward Rte. 38.
Tze'elim is a road that goes downhill, and like most of the traffic on 
this road, this particular car was traveling far in excess of the speed 
limit, which is 50 km on that part of the road.

The car couldn't stop fast enough to avoid hitting my neighbor's 
daughter as she was crossing the street at the corner of Nahal Chever.  
Lucky for her, she actually survived the attack.  MDA responded within 2 
minutes of the accident, and Hatzalah was about a minute behind them.  
It took the police about 15 minutes after I called them until they got 
here, by which time, the injured girl had already been taken to hospital.

Of course the wonderful people who run our city, who campaigned on 
running an honest government that would take the citizens' needs and 
concerns as their top priority, have not seen fit to put a much-needed 
traffic circle at this intersection - an issue that has been raised 
numerous times already with various city leaders.  "There is simply no 
budget for this circle."

A traffic circle at the corner of Refaim and Luz is already approved and 
budgeted.  But where it is really necessary, no one is interested.  It 
apparently remains the case in Beit Shemesh that someone will actually 
have to be killed first before such a circle is installed.  I just hope 
that the leaders of our fair city can bear the moral and legal guilt 
such an event will leave.  For it is indeed they who would be guilty.

Shabbat Shalom and Chodesh Tov.