Baruch Hashem the event ended with only one light injury when a vehicle slammed into a bus stop in Yerushalayim’s Kiryat Belz neighborhood. There were people at the stop, but B’chasdei Hashem they managed to get out of harm’s way.

The incident occurred on Petach Tikvah Street in the Belz area on Tuesday afternoon, involving a chareidi male driving a rented vehicle. The driver slammed on his brakes to avoid hitting a bus and apparently realizing he would not stop in time, made the decision to drive onto the sidewalk to avoid the bus. The car headed for a bus stop, but Baruch Hashem, seconds earlier a bus stopped, and the people at the stop, who would have been in the car’s path, had headed to the bus. One woman who was seated at the bus stop sustained a leg injury and she was transported to a local hospital.

Police questioned the driver. There was damage to a bus, bus stop and significant damage to the rental vehicle.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)