5 Dead, 5 Hurt in Traffic Accident on Jiyeh Highway
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A major traffic accident left five people dead on Sunday on the Jiyeh coastal highway between Sidon and Beirut.
The collision involved a Kia SUV and a BMW, according to the National News Agency.
A Frenchman was driving the Kia that has a diplomatic plate. He was accompanied by three passengers while the BMW contained four members of the Fawwaz family and a foreign domestic worker, NNA said.
The members of the Fawwaz family hail from the southern town of Jwayya in Tyre district, the agency noted.
The accident resulted in the death of Rama Fawwaz, the child Mohammed Fawwaz, Iman Siqlawi, the French Kia driver and a foreign worker called Asma, NNA said.
Three passengers of the diplomatic car and two members of the Fawwaz family, Dima and Noura, were injured in the collision.
The Lebanese Red Cross announced that seven of its rescue and emergency teams arrived on the scene and evacuated the casualties.
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21 September 2014, 19:26
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@_Southern_.
For once we are in agreement. The most effective way to prevent such fatal crashes is for us Lebanese to change our collective mind sets and let go of the من بعد حماري ما ينبت حشيش paradigm to one that respects life and safety and practices patience and tolerance.
21 September 2014, 21:59
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Agree, but it is not because of the absence of separation lines. Separation lines exist on most of our highways and they are ignored by 90% of the drivers. Most drivers ride over the separation line so they are free to swerve left or right in an instant so they can get home faster where they then drink their coffee and take a nap.
What is absent is lack of respect for laws, just like our politicians have lack of respect for the constitution. Our politicians can never be prosecuted and neither our drivers. We lack Civic Mindedness, love for others, and respect for rule and law.
21 September 2014, 22:04
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Agreed 100%.
Perhaps solid concrete separators such as deployed on the road up to the Damascus highway. Even there, many important sections were left out, alas, completing a project fully is something we have yet to master ;-)
21 September 2014, 22:09
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BTW, when I inquired as to why the job was not completed, the answer was "we ran out of the Kuwaiti funds"! Care to guess where the rest of the funds were squandered?
22 September 2014, 09:27
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I also agree with southern but I assume he meant absence instead of obscene......
21 September 2014, 20:03
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you did not turn this sectarian?!!! what's going on?!?! why are you getting along??!?! il 3ma.
22 September 2014, 02:01
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2 summers ago I was driving in downtown Beirut, I stopped @ a red light only to enrage the car behind me who went ballistic on me blowing his horn and then he got out of his car and walked towards mine yelling @ me telling me to move it, this is the kinda mentality we have in Lebanon, no respect for our laws, but once we leave Lebanon we respect the host country's laws, go figure, but either way may the victims RIP.
23 September 2014, 02:56
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Maybe for the same reason I was voted down 5 times for saying drivers do not respect separation lines and drive wherever they choose (straddling two lanes).
Those that do not like my political views will vote me down even on non-political posts.
22 September 2014, 23:04
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i know all the people from the kia car, can you anyone please please please contact me on my twitter @camilo_medina89, i need news or pictures about my family please, thank you all
10 October 2014, 18:50
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you get the names of the lebanese family, what about the other car???
the driver AUFRERE ALAIN my father, and a great teacher at the Lycee Verdun of Beyrouth,he dies, my mother AUFRERE PILAR seated behind him, seriously injured,as you can see on the picture... and two friends JEAN PIERRE director of the same Lycee Verdun and his wife MURIELLE both also injured.
Shame on you, the fawas mother driving fast and readig at some message on her phone just kill her babes and my father. Shame on you reporters...
