Page 6 - Ulpan Or E-Tone (04.04.17) Advanced level

E-Tone™: Ulpan-Or Weekly News Digest

Item #1 (Advanced Level)

Passing on Red is Expensive

Seventy two people were killed in car accidents in the first three months of
the year. Increasing police enforcement, taking care of infrastructure and
the vast propaganda have (all) failed, in the attempt of stopping vehicular
deaths. Due to the accountability of the human factor, as well as just
because it puts a great deal of money into the national treasury, the
government is making vehicular fines more expensive as of tomorrow. The
fine for not obeying a red light will jump from a thousand to a thousand
and five hundred NIS, driving a car without a valid registration will cost us
a thousand NIS, and an additional fine for two hundred and fifty NIS is
supposed to take bicycle riders off the sidewalks. In an attempt to fight the
overload at the Transportation Courts, indictment for a number of offenses
is cancelled. For instance, a driver caught speeding will be fined a
thousand and five hundred NIS and won’t be able to stand trial. Not
yielding to a pedestrian at a crossroad will add up to a fine of two hundred
and fifty NIS instead of an indictment. An electric bicycle rider below the
legal age, sixteen, will be fined a thousand NIS. Making fines higher [lit.
worse] will increase deterrence against delinquent drivers, and allow for a
quick punishment very close to when the violation occurred.

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