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Despite a great deal of confusion and contradictory reports, it is confirmed that the bus involved in the crash was an Egged 402 from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak that departed from the capital at 5:40PM.

The bus driver apparently did not realize the right side of the bus caught the parked double tractor truck, actually a truck delivering marble tile with a crane mounted at the rear of the double carrier portion, which resulted in peeling back the right side of the bus.

It is added by police that the truck was protruding into the right lane of the highway and police are questioning the driver, an Arab resident of the eastern capital to determine if he might have parked his truck this was intentionally to cause a crash as occurred.

Highway 1, the Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Highway, is now closed I both directions from Latrun west and Ben-Gurion Airport east.

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(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)