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Posted by NaturalResources on :

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than two dozen Israeli motorists maneuvered around the dead body of a road accident victim lying in the middle of a busy intersection, failing to stop to help in an incident captured by a traffic camera.

In footage broadcast by Israeli television stations on Monday and in a series of photographs on newspaper front pages, motorcyclist Moshe Yisraeli was seen trying to squeeze between two trucks at a junction on a highway near Tel Aviv Sunday.

He never made it. The camera captured his body lying near the centre of the four-way intersection, his motorcycle meters away on its side.

Some 30 cars and trucks slowed down and then carefully drove around the prone motorcylist in a stream of traffic that continued for nearly two minutes before a driver stopped his vehicle and approached the body.

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Posted by ruthie on :

It is so unfortunate that in all parts of the world and in all societies, there are people who have little concern for the well being of others.

Posted by Ace of Spades on :

or MABEY living in 2007 is too dangerous to stop for someone in the street.....for all they knew there was an ASIAN sniper in the bushes.

Posted by bdgee on :

or the body was booby-trapped or is was all a sham

Posted by IWISHIHAD on :

Could be just about anything these days, but sometimes you just have to take the chance to possibly help someone.

Posted by jordanreed on :

I'd drive around him too..I wouldnt want to damage my car.. [Smile]

Posted by T e x on :

well, thank God they drove carefully around...what if he were merely drunk or injured? How'd anybody like to be posted up on a level spot, then get run over?