A 15-year-old Charedi boy wanted to take his luggage out of the luggage compartment of a bus when he got off the bus near the El-Al junction on Highway 40. While he was leaning forward into the compartment, the driver closed the door to the luggage compartment which knocked the boy inside the compartment. The driver, not knowing that the boy was inside, began traveling towards Yerushalayim.
The boy, who was scared, called the police from inside the luggage compartment and told them that he was trapped inside and that the bus was moving. Police immediately dispatched a squad car from the Yerushalayim traffic division and began chasing after the bus. They also utilized traffic cams to identify where exactly the bus was.
The student, a U.S. resident, Sounded stressed and scared on the phone with the police. He identified that he was on route 947 on its way to Yerushalayim from the El-Al intersection. The police located the bus on traffic cams and the squad cars raced to intercept it.
Police finally caught up to the bus at the Hemed interchange and pulled the bus over to the side of the road. The youngster was released from the luggage compartment. He was uninjured.
Police opened an initial investigation into the incident and the driver was brought to the police station at the Harel interchange.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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The egged busses has security cameras with screens the driver can see at all times. Im guessing this bus was a older model or something
he should take a lawyer and get a nice sum out of egged.
the same story happened with a lady in Elad. the bus company offered her a free kartisiya (can you imagine the gall), which she refused. they then offered her a few thousand shekels, but she took a lawyer and received a few HUNDRED thousand shekels.
she was of course suffering from trauma, nightmares etc.
if anyone knows the boy – suggest that he does it the right way.
It can happen to anyone. You need a bystander to make sure the driver doesn’t close luggage door when you need to crawl deep into the luggage compartment to retrieve your stuff.
to whitecar:
Only some of the buses have cameras but all have mirrors. If the driver would have checked the mirror before closing the door the result would have been the same as with a camera.
Careless drivers are what cause accidents – not lack of cameras.
as we know, some of these drivers are in WAY too much of a rush to finish their route.
did he ride free?
few HUNDRED thousand shekels is it worth it to be locked?
to commonsaychel: Your saychel is as common as mine.
Anyone who has ever walked through Tel Aviv airport knows that a lot of bochurim act like jerks, running into elderly people (including my spouse) and cutting into lines ahead of people who have been waiting patiently. I have no idea whether this particular bochur ever behaved that way, but it is conceivable that he was warned by the driver to stay away from the baggage compartment but disobeyed the request.
Are you sure that the boy is charedi I actually heard that he was chassidic.In truth I don’t think he is either since he seems to have had a smart phone.Since he is jewish it doesn’t make a difference what his hashkafa is ,we are supposed to love all jews. Well done Yeshiva world news your Ahavas Yisroel is surely lacking.
Your facts are very wrong. He was a 20 year old modern orthodox guy.
From the recording it sure sounds like a girl to me.
And probably one of Seminary age. What would a 15 year old boy be doing in Israel anyway? And definitely not Chassidish – no Chassidish accent.
I heard the he was litvish but he took on chassidus two years ago.He is trying to work on his accent .