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Entirely Avoidable Deaths

JL;DR SUMMARY Natan Slifkin reflects on a tragic traffic accident he witnessed on Yom Yerushalayim, attributing the high casualty rate to the failure of passengers to buckle in, including a baby. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Family TragedyEmergency ServicesPublic AwarenessYom YerushalayimTraffic SafetySeatbeltsRoad AccidentsVehicular NegligencePreventable Deaths

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Jerusalem, Israel
"Driving back from the Kotel on Yom Yerushalayim last Friday, I saw that there had been a traffic accident on Route 1."

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